A review by arsenic_
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

2.5

While I have grown to love Oliver's poetry, there were moments in this book that I could not overlook. I found it hard to believe her posture of reverence towards nature could co-exist with the ways that she interacted with many of the animals she wrote about. This book was hard to get through for me, and left me with a bit of a distaste for Oliver's approach to animals, literary history, and politics. I think I will stick to reading her nature poetry. 
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