Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI think that's what, to me, also talks about the silences in my work - as a woman, a woman writer, when you say, "no" or you have to say, "no" so often to the writing occasion, those occasions don't really come back.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIn Sister Swing, the two sisters have boyfriends and they go to bed with them, but the descriptions are not graphic. They're minimal. The sex is not graphic in the way that DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover has all these graphic passages.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim