Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or triflingly, God of War, but I did not have such a gendered muse in mind then.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim