I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

Particularly in relationship to my father - there's something that daughters, girl children, do almost instinctually in their relationships with their father, so that physically, those boundaries must be respected and never crossed.

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.

The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.