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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
Victoria Chang
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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 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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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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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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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.
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
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.
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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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My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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
I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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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Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.
Victoria Chang
I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.
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
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.
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