In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

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

I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.

You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?