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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.
Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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 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 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 think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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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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
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 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 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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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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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 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 love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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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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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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.
Victoria Chang
I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
Victoria Chang
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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