Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.

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

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."