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I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.
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I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
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I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.
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I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.
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We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.
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I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.
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In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.
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Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.
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I think my way of being funny is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.
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My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.
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I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.
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