{"product_id":"upstream-selected-essays","title":"Upstream: Selected Essays *BRUISED BOOK*","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach of our \"bruised books\" are slightly scarred from living their lives - whether during transportation or accidentally dropped - but it doesn't mean that the stories within their pages are any less valuable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis copy of Upstream was slightly damaged during an aggressive stocktaking session.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuy it at a discounted rate or at full price to support our bookstore!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜・\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e〜\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which reveredpoet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUpstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Original","offer_id":51420915663072,"sku":"0143130080","price":3032.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Discounted","offer_id":51420915695840,"sku":"0143130081","price":2728.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/IMG_6722.jpg?v=1775809505","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/ja\/products\/upstream-selected-essays","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}