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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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.
Victoria Chang
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.
Victoria Chang
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
I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
Victoria Chang
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
My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
Victoria Chang
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.
Victoria Chang
People who are too uptight make me nervous.
Victoria Chang
I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
Victoria Chang
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.
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.
Victoria Chang
I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
Victoria Chang
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'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.
Victoria Chang
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.
Victoria Chang
Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
Victoria Chang
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
Victoria Chang
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.
Victoria Chang
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.
Victoria Chang
I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
Victoria Chang