The New York School of Poems

You've written about how you walked into the visalka cafe in october of 19 75 and met the late new york poet paul violi, who invited you to a work op at saint mark's church. What do you think your life would have been like if you hadn't met paul? I mean, i so much wrote my novel inferno to say what it was like to be a female coming into new york as a poet in the seventies,. You know, because every dude had some book you should read.