Poetry. Biography and memoir. Teresa Anderson died January 8, 2006 after an eleven-year battle with cancer. She continued to write, travel, and record her works with the help of her husband until near the end of her life. Friends and supporters resolved to see these works into print. Terri's first book of poems, Speaking in Sign, was published by West End Press in 1978. Her lyrical voice, gentle manner, political awareness, and physical grace came together in the strength and uncommon wisdom of these poems, winning her a place in the middle western and southwestern poetry scene of the late seventies. She continued writing poetry in the next decade, producing a second manuscript, Fertile Are These Bones. After her cancer diagnosis in 1995, Terri's subject matter grew from the land and people she loved to include her own fight with the disease. Her poems took on new dignity and clarity as a result: "?we will not survive / but, oh, have we not savored / the places where under the snow / we touched the sleeping roots of joy?" This volume is co-published with Street Sweeper Press in Albuquerque, N.M.

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