Books & Booties: Upstream

Swap your hiking boots for your slippers and join us in the Great Hall for Books & Booties. Come sit in front of the fire as we discuss Mary Oliver’s collection of essays, Upstream. Upstream is divided into 5 sections with several short essays in each and we plan to discuss the collection as a whole as well as focus in-depth on selected essays. You do not need to have read the book to join us. This program is in partnership with the Norfolk Land Trust.

Please register below. 34 copies of Upstream are available through interlibrary loan. Please contact the Circ Desk if you need assistance reserving a copy: 542-5075, extension 2.

More about the book:

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstream finds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonishment and admiration for the natural world and the craft of writing.
As she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, finding solace and safety within the woods, and the joyful and rhythmic beating of wings, Oliver intimately shares with her readers her quiet discoveries, boundless curiosity, and exuberance for the grandeur of our world.
This radiant collection of her work, with some pieces published here for the first time, reaffirms Oliver as a passionate and prolific observer whose thoughtful meditations on spiders, writing a poem, blue fin tuna, and Ralph Waldo Emerson inspire us all to discover wonder and awe in life’s smallest corners.