Full name: Upstream: Selected Essays

Author: Mary Oliver Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Poetry, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781594206702 1594206708

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstream finds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonishment and admiration for the natural world and the craft of writing. As she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, finding solace and safety within the woods, and the joyful and rhythmic beating of wings, Oliver intimately shares with her readers her quiet discoveries, boundless curiosity, and exuberance for the grandeur of our world. This radiant collection of her work, with some pieces published here for the first time, reaffirms Oliver as a passionate and prolific observer whose thoughtful meditations on spiders, writing a poem, blue fin tuna, and Ralph Waldo Emerson inspire us all to discover wonder and awe in life's smallest corners. Similar books: The Abundance by Annie Dillard The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm The Patch by John McPhee Feel Free by Zadie Smith In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen Vintage Didion by Joan Didion Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson At the Same Time by Susan Sontag On Looking by Lia Purpura Table of Contents by John McPhee Never in a Hurry by Naomi Shihab Nye The Balloonists by Eula Biss Devotions by Mary Oliver Thirst by Mary Oliver Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver