bound for glory....it helped introduce the wide world of folk....and how people when they band together can accomplish miracles....grapes of wrath was the same....

marx for beginners by rius...it helps break the marxist doctrine and permits EVERYONE to understand what he was writing about...in ways Karl Marx himself never did...

also there are the various books of poetry and stories i grew up reading....Service...Poe...Twain...Shelley...Coleridge...and the mythologies...of greece, rome, britain and the americas...they all helped open the wide world of poetry and storytelling...which led me to write my own poetry and stories....