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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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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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 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'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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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 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've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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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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 think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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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Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.
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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 I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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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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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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