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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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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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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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My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.
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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'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 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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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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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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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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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I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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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 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 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 can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
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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 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.
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