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.