Grace Paley

Grace Paley
(1922 - 2007)
(http://gothamist.com/2007/08/24/grace_paley.php)
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She was describing herself as a somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist.

...(if) you have a habit of looking at each day as a whole day -- unless you drop dead at noon or something -- then every day you live something interesting. It's interesting because you either meet a new tree or if you're in the city, you meet a new person. Or something happens. The sun shifts on the mountain -- very beautiful things happen (Grace Paley in an interview from 1998).

I will post right now a poem by her and you'll realize her large poetic breath.

• Grace Paley: Collected Shorts - a Film by Lilly Rivlin
• Suddenly There's Poughkeepsie
• How To Write a Story 

(A Life in Books)