Upstream: Selected Essays PROFILE BOOKS How she picked herself up

How she picked herself up from the mess she was in when she was sexually abused

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Upstream: Selected Essays PROFILE BOOKS How she picked herself upI 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 to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood "friend" Walt Whitman, who inspired her to vanish into the world of