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The Resource Upstream : selected essays, Mary Oliver

Upstream : selected essays, Mary Oliver

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  • A collection of essays follows the author 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 the great thinkers and writers of the past
  • "'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 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 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. -- Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
178 pages
Contents
  • Sister Turtle.
  • Section three.
  • Emerson : an introduction
  • The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible
  • Some thoughts on Whitman
  • Wordsworth's mountain.
  • Section four.
  • Swoon
  • Bird
  • Owls
  • Section one.
  • Two short ones:
  • Who cometh here?
  • Ropes
  • Winter hours
  • Building the house.
  • Section five.
  • Provincetown.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Upstream
  • My friend Walt Whitman
  • Staying alive
  • Of power and time.
  • Section two.
  • Blue pastures
  • The ponds
Isbn
9781594206702
Instance
Label
Upstream : selected essays
Title
Upstream
Title remainder
selected essays
Statement of responsibility
Mary Oliver
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • A collection of essays follows the author 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 the great thinkers and writers of the past
  • "'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 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 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. -- Provided by publisher
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1935-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Oliver, Mary
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
  • PS3565.L5
  • PS3565.L5
LC item number
  • A6 2016
  • U77 2016
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Oliver, Mary
  • Whitman, Walt
  • Oliver, Mary
  • Whitman, Walt
  • Oliver, Mary
  • Literature
  • Essays
  • Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Nature (Aesthetics)
  • American essays
  • LITERARY COLLECTIONS
  • LITERARY COLLECTIONS
  • NATURE
  • American essays
  • LITERARY COLLECTIONS
  • LITERARY COLLECTIONS
  • NATURE
  • American essays
  • Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Nature (Aesthetics)
Label
Upstream : selected essays, Mary Oliver
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Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Sister Turtle.
  • Section three.
  • Emerson : an introduction
  • The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible
  • Some thoughts on Whitman
  • Wordsworth's mountain.
  • Section four.
  • Swoon
  • Bird
  • Owls
  • Section one.
  • Two short ones:
  • Who cometh here?
  • Ropes
  • Winter hours
  • Building the house.
  • Section five.
  • Provincetown.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Upstream
  • My friend Walt Whitman
  • Staying alive
  • Of power and time.
  • Section two.
  • Blue pastures
  • The ponds
Control code
ocn961923762
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
178 pages
Isbn
9781594206702
Lccn
2016043612
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40026553179
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781594206702
  • (OCoLC)961923762
Label
Upstream : selected essays, Mary Oliver
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Sister Turtle.
  • Section three.
  • Emerson : an introduction
  • The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible
  • Some thoughts on Whitman
  • Wordsworth's mountain.
  • Section four.
  • Swoon
  • Bird
  • Owls
  • Section one.
  • Two short ones:
  • Who cometh here?
  • Ropes
  • Winter hours
  • Building the house.
  • Section five.
  • Provincetown.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Upstream
  • My friend Walt Whitman
  • Staying alive
  • Of power and time.
  • Section two.
  • Blue pastures
  • The ponds
Control code
ocn961923762
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
178 pages
Isbn
9781594206702
Lccn
2016043612
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40026553179
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781594206702
  • (OCoLC)961923762

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