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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.
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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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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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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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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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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 think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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 was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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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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 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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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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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.
Victoria Chang
