As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. 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. 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. 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.”
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year!
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