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.

剋勞迪歐•馬格裏斯（1939－ ），意大利學者、作傢、翻譯傢。生於的裏雅斯特，畢業於都靈大學，1960年開始研究中歐文化，1978年起在的裏雅斯特大學教授德國文學至今。馬格裏斯也是意大利報刊的撰稿人和專欄作傢。《多瑙河之旅》是他的成名作，1987年因該書獲得意大利巴古塔奬。馬格裏斯還獲得過意大利斯特萊加文學奬、伊拉斯謨奬、阿斯圖裏亞斯王子奬、奧地利國傢歐洲文學奬等，並在法蘭剋福書展上獲得德國書業和平奬。其代錶作還有《微型世界》等。