Upstream : selected essays

Oliver, Mary 1935-2019 (author.).

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: 0143130080
ISBN: 9780143130086
Physical Description: 178 pages ; 20 cm
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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.