Upstream selected essays

"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver refl...

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Main Author: Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Upstream
  • My friend, Walt Whitman
  • Staying alive
  • Of power and time
  • Blue pastures
  • The ponds
  • Sister Turtle
  • Emerson : an introduction
  • The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible
  • Some thoughts on Whitman
  • Wordsworth's mountain
  • Swoon
  • Bird
  • Owls
  • Two short ones. Who cometh here? ; Ropes
  • Winter hours
  • Building the house
  • Provincetown.