I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.

The 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.

Saul 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.

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.