Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.

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'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

It is true that my characters have sex.