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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.
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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 was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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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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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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As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
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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 think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, did she say that out loud? kind of humor.
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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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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I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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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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