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

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.

With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in.

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.

You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.

"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.