Books like Upstream by Mary Oliver

A practical guide to poetry that blends concise advice, historical context, and exemplary poems to help writers and readers alike explore sound, imagery, form, and revision.

A collection of Mary Oliver’s reflective dog poems, blending beloved favorites with new verses that celebrate love, loss, and the profound companionship between humans and their canine friends.

A lyrical, multimodal exploration of everyday racism, blending poetry, prose, and visual elements to reveal how ordinary slights and systemic injustices shape what it means to be a citizen in America.

A new collection of Mary Oliver’s poems, featuring her signature imagery‑rich language and keen observations of natural beauty.

Mary Oliver’s *Felicity* compiles intimate poems exploring love, the natural world, and personal reflection, organized into the sections The Journey, Love, and Felicity.

A single-author literary collection that blends poetry and essays, following a young Asian American writer who retreats from a noisy world to discover her own voice.

Wonderbook is Jeff VanderMeer’s illustrated guide that blends drawings, maps and exercises to help writers craft vivid, imaginative fiction, featuring essays from genre luminaries like Martin, Gaiman and Ford.

Mary Oliver’s Devotions compiles more than 200 poems spanning five decades, from her first book in 1963 to the 2015 collection Felicity.

Donald Hall, former poet laureate, reflects on aging in this award‑winning essay collection.

A collection of poetry written by Mary Oliver, exploring luminosity, along with love and death, the natural laws of the world, and other topics.

Hanif Abdurraqib compiles essays that explore music—from hip‑hop to rock—as a mirror for African‑American social conditions, culture, and history, drawing on experiences and critiques published in the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork.

A sixteen‑year‑old anorexic girl navigates expectations from medical staff and peers while coping with her eating disorder in a hospital ward.

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Five 19th‑century romance tales set in England and America explore love, scandal, and social expectations.

"Jeanette Winterson argues in this collection for the importance of art in all our lives. In ten intertwined essays, the acclaimed author of such recent novels as Written on the Body and Art & Lies proposes art as an active force in the world - neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting even those who don't." "An act of courage and effrontery, a uniquely human endeavor that defies time and differences, art offers new realities, emotions and worlds to anyone prepared to meet the demands it places on us. Art objects to the lie that life is small, fragmented and mean. Art objects to the myth of inevitable decay. Winterson's eloquent vision of objecting, transforming, exuberant art is presented in pieces on painting, autobiography, style and the future of fiction. She also declares her admiration for Modernism and examines the writing of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein. More personally, she confronts the current fascination with the writer's life or sexuality instead of the work itself, and describes her relationship to her own fiction."--BOOK JACKET.

What the Twilight Says collects Derek Walcott's essays from over twenty years. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture (including his noted Nobel Lecture), and his reckonings of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky. Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes and of the novelists V.S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. The book also contains Walcott's short story "Cafe Martinique," which traces the life of a colonial writer who is trapped in the values of the nineteenth century. What the Twilight Says reveals that Walcott is a writer whose prose has the same lyric power and syncretic intelligence that have made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.