People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, ….

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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

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