Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/36890to listen full audiobooks. Title: Upstream Author: Mary Oliver Narrator: Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, Kate Baer Format: mp3 Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins Release date: 04-18-23 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 18 ratings Genres: Essays Publisher's Summary: “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 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 her own writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love.

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