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

Even today, I'm much more comfortable dressed in a male kind of way.

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

I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.

Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to husband and son to bring the issue down to a more concrete level, the body is a different manifestation physically.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

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