I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.