Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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