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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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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 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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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 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 I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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'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 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 can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
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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'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 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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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