"What does it mean to respect our partnerships? How can we wholly love ourselves? How do we embrace our imperfect past and still find the courage to love again? Connections Between Us is a meditation on love that answers these questions with genuine grace and honest tenderness. Andrea Lee’s poetry braves the bold, the broken, and the beautiful of life as each poem illuminates the waiting wisdom pulsing through the darkness of heartache and injustice. Connections Between Us explores the sacred spectrum of relationships from trauma bonding to divine sensuality to the liberated self. Lee’s waltz with words welcomes us back home to honor our body, mind, soul and that one of a kind, precious heart. 

-Alex Petunia

CLI Faculty

Author of Tending My Wild