New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

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

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

The body in defense against male appropriation expresses itself through work in writing, and the work in writing produces the book. So it's a different form of creation and generation that may be viewed as creation without male contribution as a component or challenge.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.