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Lee Woodman, Heartscapes

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Heartscapes

poems by Lee Woodman


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In Heartscapes, the seventh poetry collection in her Scapes series, Lee Woodman leads readers on a sweeping journey through life and love. Wandering through many seasons of the heart, she touches love of nature, family, mentors, lovers, husbands, and cherished locations. A beloved hemlock tree, a grandchild’s wonder when tasting an apple, a mother’s passion for dance, a new love—all can thrill. But there’s the dark side too—partial sight loss, divorce, the deaths of friends and mentors. Woodman addresses the joys and turbulence of love with her signature combination of imagery, playfulness, and wonder.

POETRY / General

ISBN: 978-1-971191-31-7 (print; softcover; perfect bound)

LCCN: 2026946417

102 pages


Author Biography


Lee Woodman
is the author of the “Scapes” poetry series, of which Heartscapes is the seventh volume. Her six previously published collections include Colorscapes, Soulscapes, Artscapes, Lifescapes, Mindscapes, and Homescapes. The books in this series treat inner and outer landscapes—literal, emotional, cultural. Woodman has been honored with the 2026 Indie Reader Gold Discovery Award, the 2025 Independent Press Gold Award for Poetry, the 2025 Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry, and the 2020 William Meredith Prize. For podcast interviews, book reviews, artist statements, and readings of her poems, visit poetleewoodman.com.


Endorsements

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


“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; author of Artifacts and Other Stories; winner of the American Fiction Award in Short Story Fiction


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