As a little girl, I listened to the stories told and the opinions expressed by my large, extended, verbal family. As a young woman and writer I loved and learned from Doris Lessing, Henry Miller, Grace Paley and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Romare Beardon's collages and Kenneth Patchen's picture poems, Fellini's 8 1/2, the poems and vision of William Blake and Czeslaw Milosz.
