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The truth is he was probably looking for a partner…A Review of Mary Oliver’s Upstream
Mary Oliver Upstream: Selected Essays Penguin Press, (New York 2016) So begins one of Mary Oliver’s short essays from this collection ‘Who cometh here?’about a black bear. This poor bear having struggled long and hard to reach Provincetown (‘crossing Massachusetts, swimming the channel, striding the length of the Cape’) got tranquilised and put in…