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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.
Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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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 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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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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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'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've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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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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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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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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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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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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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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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