The Collected Poems of Lori Regina Gilliland

Lori Regina Gilliland was taken from this world much too early of heart failure due to complications caused by cardiomyopathy in March of 1996; two days before her thirty-third birthday. She lived her life dedicating to bringing love and joy to all those she encountered through laughter and compassion. She is remembered for her infectious smile and laughter and the ability to find good in all things she encountered.
She left a legacy of handwritten poems in numerous notebooks dated from 1979 through 1987; the contents of which were compiled in this volume of verse by her husband following her death in 1996. The collection of 139 poems is divided into chapters by subject matter: Historical and Biographical, Romantic, Ecclesiastic, Comic, Fantasic, and Zeitgeist.
Reading her works gives an insight into the mind of a woman brought up in a close extended Catholic family in the late 1970s in southwest Michigan as she sought to develop her own poetic voice in the early 1980s. These works span her last two years of high school, four years of undergraduate study earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in secondary education and her early years working on a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature.