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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 was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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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 being a poet, period, is isolating.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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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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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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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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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 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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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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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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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 I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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