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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.
Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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 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've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
Victoria Chang
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 think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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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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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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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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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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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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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