--- product_id: 333637475 title: "Upstream: Selected Essays" price: "€ 26.47" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/333637475-upstream-selected-essays store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # Upstream: Selected Essays **Price:** € 26.47 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Upstream: Selected Essays - **How much does it cost?** € 26.47 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/333637475-upstream-selected-essays) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 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 . "There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . ." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Uniting essays from Oliver's previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet's thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . ." -- The New York Times "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 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." Upstream 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. Review: A Book You Need to Experience - If I could give this book more than five stars I would have already. Mary Oliver's essays are exceptional. Her written words are a gift, it soothes the soul and gently inspires the reader to experience nature and be one with it. Review: The book is good but the copy is faulty - The book is great I have enjoyed reading it! But the copy is faulty as it is not cut correctly and doesn't look right ## Features - Item Trademark: PENGUIN BOOKS - manufacturer: Penguin Books - Item Weight: pounds, pounds, 0.44, 0.44 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #21,258 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #116 in Literary Essays & Correspondence #230 in U.S. Literature #316 in Nature & Ecology | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,611 Reviews | ## Images ![Upstream: Selected Essays - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/912iSoeNfWL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Book You Need to Experience *by D***S on 8 August 2026* If I could give this book more than five stars I would have already. Mary Oliver's essays are exceptional. Her written words are a gift, it soothes the soul and gently inspires the reader to experience nature and be one with it. ### ⭐⭐ The book is good but the copy is faulty *by B***S on 30 November 2023* The book is great I have enjoyed reading it! But the copy is faulty as it is not cut correctly and doesn't look right ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Journey Through Nature and Thought - LOVE IT *by I***A on 17 February 2025* I seriously love this book and keep coming back to it. Upstream is a quiet yet profound book, one that invites readers to slow down and appreciate the beauty in both language and landscape. It is a collection that will resonate with nature lovers, writers, and anyone who cherishes the simple yet profound act of paying attention. ## Frequently Bought Together - Upstream: Selected Essays - Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver - Dog Songs: Poems --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.it/products/333637475-upstream-selected-essays](https://www.desertcart.it/products/333637475-upstream-selected-essays) --- *Product available on Desertcart Italy* *Store origin: IT* *Last updated: 2026-09-23*