Thanks for posting! I learnt a lot and enjoyed it.
Andrew
On 12 September 2015 at 17:31, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
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> Good comeback?
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> http://frannychoi.com/2015/09/09/re-the-yellowface-poet/
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> Bill
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> On Saturday, September 12, 2015, <
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> > I have couple of thoughts on this controversy, mostly related to one
> > Michael Derrick Hudson...
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> > His act of publishing under a Chinese name just for a few more
> publication
> > credits is crass and shallow...if not pathetic. It's not like he was a
> > truly oppressed poet who needed to do this in order to be published. The
> > Poetry Foundation website features a couple of his poems under his real
> > name. Just a brief Googling showed published poems online in Painted
> Bride
> > Quarterly and Boulevard...probably many more magazines and sites have
> > published him under his real name. This doesn't seem the act of
> desperately
> > un- or under-published poet.
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> >
> > My guess is Michael Derrick Hudson has torpedoed whatever 'minor career'
> > in poetry he hoped to have. Henceforward he probably will need more/new
> > pseudonyms to publish under. Going forward I doubt editors will clamoring
> > to publish this knucklehead under his own name or under Yi-Fen Chou.
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> > Finnegan
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