"I only learned that Yi-Fen Chou was a pseudonym used by a white man after
I'd already picked the poem and Hudson promptly wrote to reveal himself," he
began, admitting he was angry after being fooled by the "colonial theft."
"But I had to keep that pseudonymous poem in the anthology because it would
have been dishonest to do otherwise. If I'd pulled the poem then I would have
been denying that I gave the poem special attention because of the poet's
Chinese pseudonym.
"If I'd pulled the poem then I would have been denying that I was consciously
and deliberately seeking to address past racial, cultural, social, and
aesthetic injustices in the poetry world."