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.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

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

The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a city-hub for global Chinese who dis-identify with the People's Republic of China's construction of a Communist nationalist Chineseness, I called on the Chinese muse of writing to witness my emergence out of the academic woods.

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.