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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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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 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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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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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 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'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 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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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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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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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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 can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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