{"product_id":"upstream-selected-essays-paperback","title":"Upstream: Selected Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine's\u003c\/i\u003e Ten Best Books of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There's hardly a page in my copy of \u003ci\u003eUpstream\u003c\/i\u003e that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . .\" --Maureen Corrigan, \u003ci\u003eNPR's Fresh Air \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 . . .\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e So begins \u003ci\u003eUpstream\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays in which revered\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003epoet 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eUpstream \u003c\/i\u003efollows 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in a small town in Ohio, \u003cb\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Primitive\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47657746628856,"sku":"9780143130086","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/OForUjhYV1ZoSlVCMDZ0NjNib285dz09.webp?v=1765936530","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/upstream-selected-essays-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}