Questions About Upstream: Selected Essays

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Does anyone know if the following quotation is from this book? I'm trying source it. "Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness." - Mary Oliver

Glauber Ribeiro Sorry, i don't think it is.…moreSorry, i don't think it is.(less)

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are there just essays in this book, or poetry as well?

Tash It’s just essays from Mary but there are discussions of poetry and a few poetry extracts from Whitman

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what are the essays in this book?

Aidan From the table of contents:
- Upstream
- My Friend Walt Whitman
- Staying Alive
- Of Power and Time
- Blue Pastures
- The Ponds
- Sister Turtle
- Emerson: An …moreFrom the table of contents:
- Upstream
- My Friend Walt Whitman
- Staying Alive
- Of Power and Time
- Blue Pastures
- The Ponds
- Sister Turtle
- Emerson: An Introduction
- The Bright Eyes of Eleonora: Poe's Dream of Recapturing the Impossible
- Some Thoughts on Whitman
- Wordsworth's Mountain
- Swoon
- Birds
- Owls
- Two Short Ones ("Who Cometh Here?", "Ropes")
- Winter Hours
- Building the House
- Provincetown(less)

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Any book club questions?

Glauber Ribeiro There were none in the edition i read.

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Did she actually eat turtle eggs??

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