Carver met and eventually married the poet Tess Gallagher, who would see him through his last, highly productive years before his death in 1988 from lung cancer.

卡佛与诗人苔丝·加拉格尔(Tess Gallagher)相遇并最终结婚。在他于1988年因肺癌去世之前，是她伴随他度过了高产的晚期岁月。

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Tess Gallagher, that Irish lass, I like to have fallen in love with her.

NEWYORKER: Letters to an Editor

Carver and Maryann Burk had separated, and he was living, happy and sober, with the poet Tess Gallagher.

NEWYORKER: Rough Crossings

Encouraged by his poet-wife Tess Gallagher, Carver turned to poems in the last decade of his life, and wrote until his early death from lung cancer in 1988.

ECONOMIST: New American verse