Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: “I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I’d be very pleased if they put ‘Poet and short-story writer – and occasional essayist’, in that order.” This complete edition allows readers to experience the range and overwhelming power of Carver’s poetry for the first time. It brings together in the order of their American publication the poems of Fires (1985), Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (1986), Ultramarine (1988), A New Path to the Waterfall (1989) and No Heroics, Please (1991). For readers who know Carver’s middle period only through his selected poems, In a Marine Light (1988), it includes the windfall of 51 poems not previously published in Britain. All of Us is edited by Professor William L. Stull of the University of Hartford, and introduced with an essay on Raymond Carver’s methods of composition by his widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.

克劳迪欧•马格里斯（1939－ ），意大利学者、作家、翻译家。生于的里雅斯特，毕业于都灵大学，1960年开始研究中欧文化，1978年起在的里雅斯特大学教授德国文学至今。马格里斯也是意大利报刊的撰稿人和专栏作家。《多瑙河之旅》是他的成名作，1987年因该书获得意大利巴古塔奖。马格里斯还获得过意大利斯特莱加文学奖、伊拉斯谟奖、阿斯图里亚斯王子奖、奥地利国家欧洲文学奖等，并在法兰克福书展上获得德国书业和平奖。其代表作还有《微型世界》等。