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