โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
๐ Fiction
๐
1984
๐ Penguin
๐ en-us
โ 249 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Upstream Selected Essays
โ Scribed by Mary Oliver
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"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 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."
Upstream, a...
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