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Leslie Ullman Publications, Interviews & Writing Samples Publications by Leslie Ullman The You That All Along Has Housed You: A Sequence A so lovely book, though lovely is probably the wrong word, it is a tougher book than that. I felt it a very wise book, and am impressed at the quality of Leslie’s attention, which felt inexhaustible. Reading it I felt envious of her deep connection to place, and how deftly that informs the poems, and how she always seems to know exactly what she’s doing. Her writing seems to flow naturally—at least that’s the feel of the work — the complete integration of the person and the life. --Karen Kevorkian, author if Lizard Dream and White Stucco Black Wing
The late Swiss artist Paul Klee famously observed in his diaries, One eye sees, the other feels. In these brilliant, non-traditional essays, Leslie Ullman explores the warp and woof of poetry, its inner textures and outer resonances. In the course of this intimate journey, our guide shines so much necessary light, as we feel our way holistically through the sacred space that poems make, where a silence resonates with the presence of two voices, only one of which is the writer's. Along the way, she offers up a simultaneously accessible and intelligent commentary on the inner workings of twenty poems. These deeply thoughtful essays and exercises about and with the creative process deliver us into a full-on and intensely personal embrace of the practice of poetry. Jeffrey Levine, Mortal Everlasting and Rumor of Cortez, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Tupelo Press. Order copies at www.3taospress.com. 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 Review from University of New Mexico Press More about Progress on the Subject of Immensity on this website For a number of years, Leslie Ullman has lived in the Southwest, on cultivated land, in the company of horses and with access to uncultivated desert. The seasons and conditions of this starkly appealing land have found their way into the poet and her work. In her poems there always seems to be someone who is making herself over from scratch. Ullman creates origins for herself in nature, in solitude, in animals, and of course through those aspects of human relationships that teach important lessons. "Leslie Ullman has the ability to spin illuminating spells through and around the matter of earth and life. Her vision penetrates with an attention as careful and as transforming as day through clear water, as moonlight on stone. She is an artisan with words, and the results are poems embodying the intricacy and beauty of the subjects they honor." Pattiann Rogers Leslie Ullman traces through her speaker one woman's attempt to find herself and then to live that discovered self within an alien wilderness that ranges from the indifferent to the frankly dangerous. This volume edges toward the growing certainty to plain chanfe and lucky or unlucky coincidence. Perhaps in response to the uncertain nature of the external world in Dreams by No One's Daughter, Ullman's are very much poems of metamorphosis, of becoming rather than static being." Stephen C. Behrendt Winner of the 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. "In her honest, quiet way, Ullman puts to poetic use the self-generating power that lies within her. No restraint is so permanent it cannot be cast off, no confinement so total release cannot be won. Her freedom is the ideal freedom of the poet, the mind going on, distilling, adding, converting, supplementing and complementing, certain of the real relationship of response to event no matter how remote or peripheral the events are or how ineffectual or unrelated the responses seem." Richard Hugo
Interviews with Leslie Ullman Interview with Association of Writers and Writing Programs "H.L. Hix with Leslie Ullman" audio interview on The Conversant Staging Conversations, Leslie Ullman with Richard Jackson, 25 October 2012 Interview with Leslie Ullman on "Progress on the Subject of Immensity" by Melody Nixon
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