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Author: Mary Oliver. Format: Hardback. Release Year: 2016. Item Weight: 340g. Item Width: 21mm. Item Length: 148mm. Item Height: 216mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US.

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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. -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 t be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But t 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 t just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unkwn, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.

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Penguin Putnam Inc
ISBN-10
1594206708
ISBN-13
9781594206702
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Mary Oliver
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Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies

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Place of Publication
New York, NY
Author Biography
Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of twenty-eight. Over the course of her long career, she has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Oliver currently lives in Florida.
Date of Publication
11/10/2016
Country of Publication
United States

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A Great Book from an amazing author
One of my favorite poets and a fantastic writer as well. Her powers of observation are incredible.
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by socialdog23 Mar, 2019
My first Mary Oliver
Finally found a nice copy @ a great price.... really enjoying her essays. Next splurge will be one of her poetry books.
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by flutterbug509 Apr, 2023
Lovely essays
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