Today, we can send one photographer to any location to photograph the landscape and capture lighting for that environment, and then back in our studio digitally place a vehicle within that setting.
Time was running out for Carver, and he recognised that poetry not onlycould say everything that needed to be said in fewer words, but was able to capture the emotional peaks and troughs of his life, to provide the most powerful and efficient vehicle for that final reckoning of everything that he had ever been.