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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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