Volcanic soil, basalt, ocean depths, and migrating birds—all the rich, teeming life of creation mingles together in these poems to explore the stuff from which God made us and the myriad influences that shape who we become. In This Teeming Mess of Glory, Pullar probes how identity is shaped by our origins, our families, and the competing forces at work in our minds and hearts. Fathers, mothers, grandparents, children, ancestors, and dormant volcanos come together in this collection to ask what it means to live and grow as God's creatures in the messy glory of this life.