Leslie Ullman

Rich in mystery and suggestion, these poems chronicle a woman establishing her own identity in a world ruled more by chance than happy and easy sureties.

The poems of Leslie Ullman are resonant with image and landscape, gifted with graceful layerings and connections, and potent with the kind of memory many writers would wish to have. Reading them makes me feel rich.

In her new volume, Dreams by No One’s Daughter, Leslie Ullman traces with characteristic grace the urgencies of one’s passage through a life—from the fabular weathers of childhood into those hard climes of adulthood, and along the endless currents of dream. There is a quiet, a composure here that is both beautiful and disarming. Contemplative, precise, these poems instruct us in the delights of their world.