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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.
Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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 question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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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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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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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 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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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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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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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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 e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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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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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 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 think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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