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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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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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'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 being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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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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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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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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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I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo
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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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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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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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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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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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