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

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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 being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.
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It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.
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