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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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 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 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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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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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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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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 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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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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The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo
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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like Can you read at this thing? And I say, Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York.
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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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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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 love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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'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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