Colorscapes

5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:

By Laura Zeller

Some poetry collections ask to be read. Colorscapes asks to be seen. Not like other books, this one brings color to life, giving it life, meaning, and more than just words on the page. Lee draws the reader into a universe where color is not only adornment but language from the first verses.

Reading this collection feels immersive and quietly exhilarating. There is a sensory richness that slows you down and sharpens attention. The poems often spark recognition, a memory triggered by a shade, a mood tied to a hue, a feeling you didn’t realize had a color. The experience is both intimate and expansive, engaging the heart while also nudging the mind toward new ways of seeing perception itself.

Colorscapes is all about how color affects memory, emotion, culture, and history. It doesn't matter if someone knows it or not; these ideas are important to everyone. Through nature, art, and personal stories, Lee shows how color affects who we are, where we are, and what we experience. Color connects people's inner lives to the outside world, the songs say.

Lee makes bright and clear art. Because of how they're organized, reading them is like going through an art gallery; each one gives you a different view while still adding to the whole. Her writing is direct and easy to understand, and she uses vivid language on purpose. When poetry talks about art history or cultural background, it feels more real and less academic, which makes the poems better without making the reader feel far away.

Several pieces linger, especially those that challenge assumptions, like reflections on black not as absence but presence, or yellow shifting from joy to intensity. These poems demonstrate Lee’s ability to hold complexity within clean lines. By the final pages, Colorscapes leaves a lasting impression of having tuned the reader’s senses more finely. It’s a book worth reading for anyone curious about how deeply color shapes thought, memory, and feeling, and how poetry can make the invisible suddenly visible.

About the Author 

Lee Woodman

Lee Woodman is the author of the “Scapes” poetry series (“Colorscapes,” “Soulscapes,” “Artscapes,” “Lifescapes,” “Homescapes,” “Mindscapes”) 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.