Progress on the Subject of Immensity - (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) by Leslie Ullman (Paperback)

About the Book

"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.

Book Synopsis

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

From the Back Cover

"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.'"--David Wojahn, author of World Tree

About the Author

Leslie Ullman is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, including Progress on the Subject of Immensity (UNM Press) and Little Soul and the Selves.