A review by jengennari
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

4.0

In this collection of essays, Mary Oliver describes in delicious detail the familiar woods and ponds and creatures that animate much of her poetry. She also explores Emerson, Whitman and Poe in a nearly scholarly way, reminding us that she is an expert in the craft and purpose of poetry. She ends with a love letter to building a house/shed and to the Provincetown before tourism. Throughout, I felt the creep of age, of someone slowing down.