In Landscape of the Heart, Stephen J. Lyons writes of a five-year period following a divorce when he and his young daughter Rose serch for new meanings in their lives and their relationship. This quiet work of healing is both painful and joyful as Stephen and Rose discover the West together. These essays and poems confirm the existence of an internal "landscape" that responds to birds on the wing, mountain lakes, big skies, and dense forests - a landscape of the heart. "These are the moments I am moving in," writes Lyons. "As I get older, I lean more and more toward these small pockets of the obvious and the mysterious that rise from the landscape, surround memories, and enhance a sense of possibilities. This is also where I am leading my daughter during the short years of our time together."