Upstream: Selected Essays
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Mary Oliver. (2023). Upstream: Selected Essays. Unabridged Pushkin Industries.

Mary Oliver. 2023. Upstream: Selected Essays. Pushkin Industries.

Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays. Pushkin Industries, 2023.

Mary Oliver. Upstream: Selected Essays. Unabridged Pushkin Industries, 2023.

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The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet Mary Oliver, also named one of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year, now in audio.

"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 revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood "friend" Walt Whitman, who inspired her to vanish into the world of her own writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. 

Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well—as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.

Narrated by poets Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, and Kate Baer.

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     August 1, 2016
     Distinguished, honored, prolific, popular, bestselling—adjectives that don’t always hang out together—describe Oliver’s body of work, nearly three dozen volumes of poetry and collections of prose. This group (19 essays, 16 from previous collections) is a distillation of sorts. Born of two “blessings—the natural world, and the world of writing: literature,” it partakes of the spirits of a journal, a commonplace book, and a meditation. The natural world pictured here is richly various, though Oliver seems most drawn to waterways. All manner of aquatic life—shark and mackerel, duck and egret—accompany her days, along with spiders, foxes, even a bear. Her keen observations come as narrative (following a fox) or as manual (building a house) or as poems masquerading as description (“I have seen bluefish arc and sled across the water, an acre of them, leaping and sliding back under the water, then leaping again, toothy, terrible, lashed by hunger”). When the world of writing enters, currently unfashionable 19th-century writers emerge—Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, William James—in readings that evade academic textual analyses and share the look-at-what-I-saw tone animating Oliver’s observations of the natural world. The message of her book for its readers is a simple and profound one: open your eyes.

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   • content: Poets Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, and Kate Baer perform this collection of poet Mary Oliver's essays. The narrators deliver different sections of the audiobook, adding short personal descriptions about why they love Oliver's work. The essays in this collection illustrate the author's eye for prose; Oliver's background as a poet ensures that not a word is out of place. Sullivan and Baer narrate the middle sections of the book, which focus on Oliver's reverence for other poets such as Shelley, Whitman, and Poe. But Alyan's performance of the first and last sections of the audiobook is the standout. She captures Oliver's intense love for the natural world and the ways that her obsession with nature fills her work. K.D.W. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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"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 revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood "friend" Walt Whitman, who inspired her to vanish into the world of her own writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. 

Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited...

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