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Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Tiger Wife


for Wendi Deng

tiger tiger tiger wife
wonder woman volleyball spike
if you have an Asian wife
maybe she’s not just a gold-digger?

tiger wife or trophy wife?
slam-down sister or socialite?
bright pink jacket and pencil skirt
not like gold-digger who wants old man hurt

Wendi Deng is a Power Ranger
with Crazy Asian Magic Powers
was in Red Army? trained to kill?
agile PYT hit like a girl

Crouching tiger? flying Murdoch?
tiger wife clawed her way up
Chinese bloggers catch Deng fever
Wendy Daaaang her homegirls call her

thank you for everything #mrmiyagi
business school graduate? yoga devotee?
from communist obscurity
“herro you rike pilate DVD?”

tiger tiger tiger wife
wonder woman volleyball spike
if you have an Asian wife
what if she’s not just a gold-digger?
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Professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, published by Stanford University Press and winner of the Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies, and of the poetry collection Journey to the West, winner of the Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman.
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