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

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy.

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

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

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

I also wanted to be like my brothers, physically, and yet not physically. So I would constantly - and I think nowadays it's taken for granted that this is what girlfriends do - I would constantly wear their shorts, put on their shirts. That did not seem odd because we were desperately poor for quite a while. It wasn't as if pretty little girlie things were available to me.