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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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Awkwardness
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Hypocrisy
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Hypocrisies
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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've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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 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 think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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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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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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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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Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like Can you read at this thing? And I say, Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York.
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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 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 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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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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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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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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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