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Key ideas from the book
- Oliver reflects on how the natural world shaped her life and work as a poet.
- She considers reading and literature as ways of discovering oneself.
- Her essays examine the pleasure and demands of artistic labor.
- Walt Whitman’s poetry helped shape her understanding of what a poem can offer.
- Oliver reflects on the influence and responsibility of writers who came before her.
About Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
In Upstream, Mary Oliver gathers essays from earlier books and other sources to reflect on the natural world, literature, and the work of making art. She considers how close attention to nature and reading shaped her sense of herself and her life as a writer.
Walt Whitman is an important presence in Oliver’s reflections on poetry and the experience of entering a poem. She also considers the writers who came before her, including Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, and the inheritance their work offers.
This collection will suit readers interested in Oliver’s literary perspective, nature writing, and thoughtful essays on artistic life. It offers a way to encounter the ideas behind her poetry through her reflections on the worlds of nature and literature.
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