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Upstream : selected essays / Mary Oliver.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143130086
  • ISBN: 0143130080
  • Physical Description: 178 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).
Formatted Contents Note:
Section one. Upstream -- My friend Walt Whitman -- Staying alive -- Of power and time. -- Section two. Blue pastures -- The ponds -- 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 -- Two short ones: Who cometh here? ; Ropes -- Winter hours -- Building the house. -- Section five. Provincetown. -- Acknowledgments.
Subject: Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Literature > History and criticism.
Essays.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Nature (Aesthetics)
American essays > 21st century.
Genre: Essays.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Lansdowne Library PS 3565 L5 A6 2019 (Text) 26040003398886 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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