“Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.”

—  Vanna Bonta

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

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