Leslie is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction and criticism, including Zither & Autobiography, The Tango, Orchid Jetsam, Dahlia’s Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction, Defoe, Day Ocean State of Stars. Forthcoming: Selected Poems, 1974-2006/This isn’t on class/wading in grass from University of California Press in 2008. Her CDs include “Can’t” is “Night” and Other Poems and way.