e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019-
Subjects
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019-
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Essays.
Nature (Aesthetics) -- Essays.
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
Women poets -- 21st century -- Essays.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019-
by title:
Upstream : selected ...
by call number:
814.6 O48u
Search the Web
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019-
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019-
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Essays.
Nature (Aesthetics) -- Essays.
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
Women poets -- 21st century -- Essays.
MARC Display
Upstream : selected essays /
Mary
Oliver
.
by
Oliver
,
Mary
, 1935-2019-
Penguin Press, 2016.
Call #:
814.6 O48u
Subjects
Oliver
,
Mary
, 1935-2019-
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Essays.
Nature (Aesthetics) -- Essays.
American essays -- Women authors.
American essays -- 21st century.
Women poets -- 21st century -- Essays.
ISBN:
9781594206702 (hc.)
Description:
178 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Upstream -- My friend, Walt Whitman -- Staying alive -- Of power and time -- Blue pastures -- The ponds -- Sister Turtle -- Emerson: An introduction -- The bright eyes of Eleonora: Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible -- Some thoughts on Whitman -- Wordsworth's mountain -- Swoon -- Bird -- Owls -- Two short ones. Who cometh here? -- Ropes -- Winter hours -- Building the house -- Provincetown.
Summary:
'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 this 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.'
Oliver
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.
Mary
Oliver
is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She is known for her clear and poignant observances of the natural world.
Genre:
Essays.
Holds:
5
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Due Date
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
814.6 O48u
Adult books
Item being held
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
814.6 O48u
Adult books
Checked out
Jun 13, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
814.6 O48u
Adult books
Checked out
Jun 27, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
814.6 O48u
Adult books
Checked out
Jun 11, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.