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Progress on the Subject of Immensity
Leslie Ullman
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Description for Progress on the Subject of Immensity
Paperback. "Leslie Ullman's deeply meditative poems reflect an individual's exploration of herself and her relationship to the natural world and other people. The Southwest is the setting of her inquiry, and her work is grounded in the rhythms of the natural world. The poems have a quiet intensity about them that engages the reader"--Provided by publisher. Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
“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 ... Read more
“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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry
Condition
New
Weight
134g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826353627
SKU
V9780826353627
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About Leslie Ullman
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 ... Read more
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