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"'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 beloved poet Mary Oliver refl... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Upstream
- My friend, Walt Whitman
- Staying alive
- Of power and time
- Blue pastures
- The ponds
- Sister Turtle
- Emerson : an introduction
- The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible
- Some thoughts on Whitman
- Wordsworth's mountain
- Swoon
- Bird
- Owls
- Two short ones. Who cometh here? ; Ropes
- Winter hours
- Building the house
- Provincetown.