Additional Contributors Are Marie Keesing And Harriet Moore.

A first book at age eighty-four, TABOOS: POEMS is interesting and daring. Versatile artist, poet and essayist Virginia Lee Hines tackles difficult topics, paints timeless pictures with skillful words, transports readers to far-off places in other times-Iowa, the Adirondacks, Missouri, Chicago, Mexico...This spirited and progressive poet has long been retired to a quiet life in the Rochester, NY area, where she mentors woman poets in a private writers group, enjoys reading and the company of her children and grandchildren. The topics of Hines' poems will surprise you, maybe even inspire.

Elena thought that she had already lived through the worst days of her life until the morning she got the phone call everyone dreads. Within minutes, she knew her life would never be the same. Little did she know what was in store for the rest of her life. To Love Again shows us that even at our lowest moments, we can find our way through the dark and begin to live and love again.