![]() ![]() ![]() 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. “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. ![]() “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. ![]() 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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