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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.
Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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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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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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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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