LANDSCAPE OF MY CHILDHOOD by Torre A. DeVito - "The love of my parents rose as mountains in the
landscape of my childhood. So very like a mountain, those, with streams so clear, and shadow under wild wood. There, upon that hard barrier broke many storms, ended many harsh intrusions. The unknown, beyond that wall, evoked many dreams, began many false illusions." So begins "Mountains" one of the best known of DeVito's early poems and the source of the title of this collection of autobiographical poems.