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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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'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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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.
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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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 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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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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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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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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 was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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