![]() ![]() It was January and the ruthless clamp of cold wore down on us outside. ![]() I was rubbing her back, feeling each vertebra with my fingers as a rung on a ladder. We were lying on her bed with a mohair blanket covering us. Terry Tempest William: "I am 54 years old, the age my mother was when she died. What Terry found in those journals eventually led- some 35 years later- to a second memoir about her mother, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice. When Terry Tempest Williams’s mother lay dying, she told Terry that she had left her all of her journals, but made her promise not to look at them until after her death. Refuge tells us about her mother's up bringing in a big Mormon family in Utah and her subsequent struggle with cancer-a illness that has claimed the lives of many women in her family and others as a result of ongoing nuclear testing in the nearby Nevada desert. ![]() Terry Tempest Williams has written some 14 books including Refuge a memoir about her mother written in 1991. Welcome to Art Works, the program that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works. Jo Reed: That was author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams. I thought I was writing a book about voice it may be that I’ve written a book on silence. Terry Tempest Williams: One of the interesting things I think as writers, at least for me, I never know where I’m going if I did, I wouldn’t be interested. Terry Tempest Williams-Podcast Transcript ![]()
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