Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.

"Time" does not mean "occasion."

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.