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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.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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 think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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