Description: Further DetailsTitle: UpstreamCondition: NewSubtitle: Selected EssaysISBN-10: 0143130080EAN: 9780143130086ISBN: 9780143130086Publisher: Penguin USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/29/2019Description: One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver.“There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . .” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . .” —The New York Times “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 revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 196mmItem Length: 127mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 210gAuthor: Mary OliverGenre: Home Garden & PetsTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Upstream
Title: Upstream
Subtitle: Selected Essays
ISBN-10: 0143130080
EAN: 9780143130086
ISBN: 9780143130086
Release Date: 10/29/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Upstream : Selected Essays
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: General, American / General, Essays
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Nature, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Mary Oliver
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback