He consider himself one among the ??wild children of Whitman, the Beat movement and authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, anti-war poets like Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder and he admire Puerto Rican authors like Nilita Vient??s Gast??n, Luis Rafael S??nchez, Joserram??n Mel??ndes, Yvan Sil??n and others.