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

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual..

Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's te….

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless..

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..

These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that a….

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

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you..

Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to husba….

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight….

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

As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing la….

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped..

Working women went through a time when they believed that..

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme..

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality..

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

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself..

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

I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring ….

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