I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously.

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

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.

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.

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 have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.