I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."
Shirley Geok-lin LimIn some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim