Particularly in relationship to my father - there's something that daughters, girl children, do almost instinctually in their relationships with their father, so that physically, those boundaries must be respected and never crossed.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.
Shirley Geok-lin LimSigns of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim