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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.
Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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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'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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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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 can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
Victoria Chang
I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
Victoria Chang
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've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
Victoria Chang
I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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