04207cam a2200721 4500 468420951 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698405622 0698405625 B01CDVCAUQ Amazon d8baf8ad-c5e8-4e2f-9f44-e959a274b669 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2624872 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019. Upstream [Libby eBook] : Selected Essays. Penguin Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1534kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 600kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. mary oliver poetry books. short story collections. gifts for animal lovers. bird puzzles for adults. American Short Stories. short story anthology. book of nature poetry. American Literature. animal lover gifts. mary oliver poetry. book lovers gifts. gifts for readers. essay collection. long story short. book lover gifts. pet lover gifts. essay writing. Short Stories. animal books. nature books. poetry books. book lovers. mary oliver. book gifts. book lover. Wildlife. Animals. Writing. Nature. Poetry. Essays. essay. poet. HTML:<b>One of <i>O, The Oprah Magazine's</i> Ten Best Books of the Year!<br /> The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver</b>.<br /> <br /> "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."<br /> So begins <i>Upstream</i>, 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."<br /> <br /> <i>Upstream</i> 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. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8baf8ad-c5e8-4e2f-9f44-e959a274b669&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8baf8ad-c5e8-4e2f-9f44-e959a274b669&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8baf8ad-c5e8-4e2f-9f44-e959a274b669&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)