When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian
September 9, 2015 12:51 PM   Subscribe

Perhaps there was no high road to be taken here, but as unsatisfying as it is to reward Hudson—a poet who, in the parlance of literary criticism, acted dickishly—Alexie did the right thing. His admiration for the poem didn’t change. What changed was that he was forced to detail and rationalize the way he reads and what he reads for. And it’s the way, frankly, that many of us read, regardless of background, identity, or politics: we bring our own dreams or baggage to bear upon whatever we have chosen to lay our eyes on.
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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we just had a post about this whole thing a couple days ago, go ahead and add this there. -- cortex



 

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