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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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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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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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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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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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'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.
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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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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'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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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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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.
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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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