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Shirley Geok-lin LimSaul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThere are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim