At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

"Time" does not mean "occasion."