Upstream: selected essays

Section one. Upstream

My friend Walt Whitman

Staying alive

Of power and time.

Section two. Blue pastures

The ponds

Sister Turtle.

Section three. Emerson : an introduction

The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible

Some thoughts on Whitman

Wordsworth's mountain.

Section four. Swoon

Bird

Owls

Two short ones: Who cometh here? ; Ropes

Winter hours

Building the house.

Section five. Provincetown.

Acknowledgments.