Upstream

Selected Essays

Ranked #29 in Essays, Ranked #42 in St. Paulsee more rankings.

One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year!

The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver.

"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 revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the...
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