Upstream: Selected Essays
Oliver on attention, solitude, and the three selves competing inside any working artist. Quieter than the poems, and considerably more explicit about how the work gets done.
Oliver’s prose on attention, solitude and the discipline the creative life demands, including “Of Power and Time”, on the three selves competing inside any working artist. The essays are quieter than the poems and considerably more explicit about method: how she used the early mornings, why she carried a notebook, and what she thought was owed to the world in exchange for the looking.
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How to hedge against that hazard is what beloved poet Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935–January 17, 2019) explores in a wonderful piece titled “Of Power and Time,” found in the altogether enchanting Upstream: Selected Essays (public library).
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