“In elegant, precise language, with striking imagery and a playfulness, Lee Woodman leads the reader on a journey through the sweep of life and love. She writes about childhood, young love, family, friends, and nature, about marriage and its unraveling, the lingering pain of loss, the call of sex, second chances, and the sweetness of late love. The last lines of each poem shimmer with emotion and infuse the poem with a surprising, radiant meaning. Heartscapes moved me, and the poems have stayed with me. A beautiful collection.”

—Ronna Wineberg, founding fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review and author of Artifacts and Other Stories, winner of the American Fiction Award in Short Story Fiction.

“HEARTSCAPES is a beautifully written collection that reflects on the full span of life—birth, living, and death. “For my revered tree will have longer thoughts than we, / and longer longings.” In these poems, Lee Woodman contemplates her journey through love, loss, and renewal—the good, the painful, and the transformative. She gathers the fragments of her life especially after divorce and finds the strength to move forward—with hope, with courage, with words as her compass. “Trying to live in the same water we each must save ourselves before drowning together.” And she does. She survives. She heals. She writes on. The tree is her magic.”

—Gloria Mindock, editor of Červená Barva Press, award winning author of Grief Touched the Sky at Night