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."

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

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

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.