It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

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

The body in defense against male appropriation expresses itself through work in writing, and the work in writing produces the book. So it's a different form of creation and generation that may be viewed as creation without male contribution as a component or challenge.

My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.

Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

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