5/30/2023 0 Comments Mary oliver upstream reviewOnly when we confront everyday experience will we come to know who we are. “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed.” Just like the veins in a leaf and the line that marks a page, the child is known to oneself and to others by careful study and attention. In her collection of essays, Upstream, there is a consistently hidden figure: the child. Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke on Race, Writing, and FriendshipĪs a child, she marched across the diverse Ohio forests and as an adult spent time in New England’s woodlands.Kenneth Burke on Reading for Identification.Lost in Translation: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.Ray Bradbury on the Seduction of Space in The Rocket Man.Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read.Walter Benjamin on the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.Simone Weil on the Generosity of Attention in Gravity and Grace.
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