Good comeback?
http://frannychoi.com/2015/09/09/re-the-yellowface-poet/
Bill
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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