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I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 27
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When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.
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I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.
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My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.
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Particularly in relationship to my father - there's something that daughters, girl children, do almost instinctually in their relationships with their father, so that physically, those boundaries must be respected and never crossed.
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If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.
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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 is gone.
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I came to realize this weird projection: you are much more passionate about hating something outside of you when you know that something is also in you.
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From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.
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I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.
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I don't really get into the power sufficiently, and that's also a problem for me.
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In the poem C, the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.
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The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.
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This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!
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I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.
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