Good one…
Doug
On Sep 12, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for posting! I learnt a lot and enjoyed it.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 12 September 2015 at 17:31, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> 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...
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Finnegan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Douglas Barbour
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