Overview

The sixth volume in Lee Woodman's renowned Scapes series, Colorscapes is a veritable celebration of the colors of Woodman's life. As a child living in India, she absorbed the rich and colorful fruits and spices in the marketplace and the wild combos of yellows, greens, and purples in women's saris. Studying studio art and art history in college, she encountered color theory and the phenomenology of perception. Throughout her career came opportunities to submerge herself in color, working at the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and other stewards of art, architecture, technology, and science. For Woodman, color is more than a fascination, as she charges us to live and breathe through color, noting that color suffuses our lives with meaning and memory, bidding us to relive experiences we've had, people we've met, and passions that have enriched our lives.

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""The poems in Colorscapes, Lee Woodman's latest book, seem born from deep study and a passionate enthusiasm for color, which she explores in the natural world, at the heart of stories, and in the hands of artists. Her images can be dazzling as a peacock's spread tail, especially when describing birds, flowers, and gardens. Readers will enjoy, as did I, an inviting variety in poems' tone, content, and type. One witty narrative poem, ""Devil with My Green Dress On,"" recounts a laugh-out-loud incident featuring an emerald green velvet gown worn by a usurper. Many of Woodman's poems offer not only fancy but fascinating fact, such as that Tyrian purple dye used in ancient Greece 'came from milked sea snails.' Among my favorite poems are the ekphrastic ones that respond to art and artists such as Leibovitz, Bonnard, and Vermeer. In 'Caravaggio, a Story in Tenebroso' the painter 'confesses / through drama of color, he's / John himself in fiery shroud.' When you have Colorscapes in hand and are ready to read, you're in for a treat. The drama of color and its beauty suffuses the book."" -Margaret Hasse, poet, author of Belongings and eight other poetry collections ""Colorscapes is a book about life-about green and yellow and 'provocative pink, ' about bugs and bluejays and bunnies. It speaks of ancient rocks, flitting butterflies, and the colors we see as well as those we feel. Lee Woodman's poems blend sound with color in cadenced, syncopated rhythms that are primal and instinctual, fresh and new. Like the musicians, poets, painters, and natural forms that inspired her, Woodman charges us to live and breathe through color, reminding us that color suffuses our lives with meaning and memory, and through color we relive experiences we've had, people we've met, and passions that have enriched our lives."" -Virginia M. Mecklenburg, chief Curator Emerita, Smithsonian American Art Museum ""Lee welcomes us into her dining room like a cordial spy. But if you listen closely, you'll hear an inner roar. I trust her more than the New York Times."" -Sparrow, author of Small Happiness and Other Epiphanies, most published author in The SUN magazine since its inception

Author Information

Lee Woodman is the author of the ""Scapes"" poetry series (Homescapes, Mindscapes, Lifescapes, Artscapes, and Soulscapes) and winner of the Independent Press Gold Award 2025, the Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry 2025, and the Independent Press Award for Distinguished Favorite in Poetry 2023. She is also winner of the 2020 William Meredith Prize for Poetry, the 2021 Atlantic Review International Poetry Competition Merit Award, and First Prize in Poetry and Prose Contest for Carve Magazine 2022. Her essays and poems have been published in Poet Lore, Tiferet Journal, Zócalo Public Square, Grey Sparrow Press, The Ekphrastic Review, vox poetica, The New Guard Review, The Concord Monitor, The Hill Rag, Naugatuck River Review, Tulip Tree Publishing, and The Broadkill Review. A Pushcart nominee, she received an Individual Poetry Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities FY 2019 and FY 2020, and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship in 2022. Woodman has been a featured guest on numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Grace Cavalieri's Poet and the Poem at the Library of Congress, The Packaged Tourist Show at The National Archives with Andrew Dibiase, The Authors Show with Don McCauley, and Gab Talks with Gabby Olczak.

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