Progress on the Subject of Immensity

For over thirty years now, Leslie Ullman has steadily refined a poetry of the most acute and lyrically precise mindfulness, of what one of her poems calls the 'greater alertness.' This method has been forged in part by her ability to render the harsh beauties of the southwestern landscapes that have been her adopted home. More important still, however, is her almost shamanistic willingness to visit those liminal states between waking and dreaming, conventional reality and phantasm--states that sometimes offer menace, sometimes wonderment. This is all to say that Leslie Ullman is a poet of the first order, writing at the height of her very considerable powers.--David Wojahn, author of World Tree

Author: Leslie Ullman
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 08/30/2013
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780826353627
Award: New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards - Winner

About the Author
Ullman, Leslie: -

Leslie Ullman is professor emerita of creative writing at the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP), where she established and directed the Bilingual MFA Program. She currently teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Ullman is the author of three poetry collections: Natural Histories (winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award), Dreams by No One's Daughter, and Slow Work Through Sand (co-winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize). Her poems and essays have been published in a number of magazines and literary journals.