52 Stories and Poems Preservation By Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver (1938-1988) Raymond Carver was the son a sawmill worker and a waitress. He attended several colleges before graduating with a B.A. from Humboldt State College in 1962. Carver was an alcoholic, went bankrupt twice, and through it all continued to write. Married twice, he had two children from his first marriage. Carver died from lung cancer at the age of fifty. Cathedral was published in 1983, but is still very applicable today considering the present economy and our humanity. Carver, best known for writing concise, deceptively simple, powerful prose, was also an accomplished poet. "The short story Preservation" is a part of the collection Cathedral . To preserve is the act of stopping something valuable and perishable from spoiling, going bad, deteriorating, or becoming worthless. As human beings some of what we try to preserve is our food, health, our families, ourselves, and our culture. In "Preservatio...