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There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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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Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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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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 think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.
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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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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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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 think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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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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