Diane Imhoff loved life...yet death stalked her. Her mother died of bone cancer at age forty. Her younger sister collapsed in a college classroom from heart failure at age twenty-three. Diagnosed with breast cancer at age forty, Imhoff's Stanford oncologist pronounced her a dead woman walking. He was right, but his prognosis was twenty-five years premature. She died at age sixty-five, three weeks after being diagnosed with uterine cancer. Between her mother's death and ther own, Diane Imhoff discovered her voice, using it to explore the mysteries of suffering, death and life. Her poetry represents an archeology of meaning, bringing into focus the image of a beautiful, often magical, yet deeply dysfunctional social landscape. "At least that's what she said," unearths the reality of her mother's death and the problem of evil...the suffering that so permeates human existence. "Rainbows of Wings" exposes the trauma of a young woman claiming her space in a sexist world. "Loving the Killer" lays bare the emotional toll of her decades-long marriage to a self-centered, verbally abusive husband. Book jacket.