One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.

If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over.

As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother and later having a hostile relationship with my stepmother, there were all kinds of Freudian issues rising from possessing a female body that I had to negotiate with no guidance, and I did this negotiation almost instinctually.