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The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo
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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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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 people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.
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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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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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 can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
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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 am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.
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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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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 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've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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 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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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'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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'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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