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New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 27
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I was not - even the notion of could not seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously.
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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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Even today, I'm much more comfortable dressed in a male kind of way.
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It is true that my characters have sex.
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I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.
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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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Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.
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The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.
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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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When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.
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I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.
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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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John Milton famously claimed, Fame is the spur for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.
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That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.
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I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.
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My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: I want, I want, I want!9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.
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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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