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

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

In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

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.