tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52014722024-03-13T06:51:55.464-05:00tympanSensitive. Melodramatic. Up to No GoodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.comBlogger965125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-63039555993926854562014-03-06T15:26:00.001-06:002014-03-06T15:26:21.670-06:00On the Poetry Foundation's "Asian American Voices in Poetry"This letter was originally sent to the Poetry Foundation's web editors in
response to their feature "Asian American Voices in Poetry," which
includes a list of some 100 Asian American poets. When originally
posted, the list included a "country of heritage" for most of the
authors. In response to this letter and other feedback received by
the editors, the "countriesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-16573209471975691352013-09-27T18:14:00.001-05:002013-09-27T18:15:59.971-05:00Chinese Silence No. 80, for David Gilmour
I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly
love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.
--David Gilmour
I can’t really give you the tour. I’ve just moved, it’s a mess, and I just got out of bed, and
the books here, well, they’re so sophisticated you probably wouldn’t understand
them, and…
Okay, I’ll be honest.
It’s because you’re ChineseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-39668292246068907222013-07-03T09:57:00.000-05:002013-07-03T12:34:58.643-05:00The Tang of Silence
Last week, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day posted Bruce Cohen's "Tang," which included the following note from the author:
Lately I have been worried and depressed over the fact that my poetic voice was becoming stale, my persona and language too familiar, and quite simply, I was bored with myself. In order to shake myself out of my funk I started reading some Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-7898448127938702592012-09-17T15:53:00.000-05:002012-09-17T15:53:17.270-05:00"I Refuse to Ever Date an Asian Man": Racetrolling, Self-Sabotage, and How Not to Read Junot Diaz
A couple weeks ago, my Facebook feed blew up over a post called "I'm an Asian Woman and I Refuse to Ever Date an Asian Man." Eye-roll, please: there's nothing more likely to get Asian Americans riled up than the subject of interracial dating--except maybe the question of why some Asians don't find other Asians attractive. Self-loathing, betrayal, the emasculated Asian man--all wrapped up into Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-31767377799410709882012-02-15T17:17:00.000-06:002012-02-15T17:17:25.861-06:00Jeremy Lin, Ping Pong Playa, and Asian American Dreams
Asian Americans (and plenty of other folks) are going bonkers over Jeremy Lin, the undrafted point guard from Harvard who's become an overnight sensation for the New York Knicks. Now, Lin is not the first Asian American to become a superstar athlete; nor is he the first Asian to star in the NBA. He is merely, as the sports pages have been so carefully putting it, the first American-born Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-13617553842567471752012-01-30T18:30:00.000-06:002012-01-30T18:30:05.695-06:00"Unleash Ch(i)ang"A Q&A with Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida and Tea Party darling, in Sunday's New York Times Magazine included a puzzling anecdote about former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and an ancient Chinese warrior:
After you became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida
House of Representatives, in 2006, your mentor, Jeb Bush, presented you
with a sword. What was that about?
Chang is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-37862601642912957652012-01-17T16:31:00.002-06:002012-01-17T16:31:56.365-06:00Tiger Mom Is Still Better Than You
"Tiger Mom" Amy Chua returned last month with a new essay in the Wall Street Journal. She's a little more circumspect, a little more "hands-off." But don't worry. She's still a better parent than you are.
Chua's older daughter is now in college (at Harvard, of course). Tiger Mom is constantly looking over her shoulder, right? Wrong! That's for inferior Western "helicopter parents," who have toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-17371198459171188862011-12-29T15:55:00.002-06:002012-01-02T11:53:24.217-06:00Has Asian American Studies Failed? Continued
(image via bigWOWO)
I've been amazed by the response to my last post on Asian American studies--some great comments here and even more discussion on Facebook, and even a shout-out from angry asian man.
It seems like the state and place of Asian American studies is
something a lot of people have been thinking about, although I get just
as strong a sense that people are eager for a more open Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-7398215732599518642011-12-20T22:03:00.000-06:002011-12-22T17:19:03.847-06:00Has Asian American Studies Failed?
Episode 1: The New York Times publishes a review of the learning center at Heart Mountain, one of the sites of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Halfway through, the piece takes a hard turn toward historical revisionism. Internment was "more the rule than the exception" and was applied to other ethnic groups too. Japan was a "racist, militant society" and many Japanese AmericansAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-19886530624633084822011-12-18T16:47:00.001-06:002011-12-18T16:47:36.632-06:00War Is Over (If You Noticed)
In March 2003--more than eight years ago--I ended my first blog post with these words:
I don't think it's a coincidence that I'm feeling compelled to start one of these things at the very moment that the U.S. has engaged in a mad war on Iraq. The blogger, the poet, and the dissenting citizen seem to have a lot in common these days: they're all trying to make themselves heard in a culture thatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-5804071274033697442011-07-21T16:55:00.004-05:002011-07-21T18:28:40.621-05:00The Tiger Wifefor Wendi Dengtiger tiger tiger wifewonder woman volleyball spikeif you have an Asian wifemaybe she’s not just a gold-digger?tiger wife or trophy wife?slam-down sister or socialite?bright pink jacket and pencil skirtnot like gold-digger who wants old man hurtWendi Deng is a Power Rangerwith Crazy Asian Magic Powerswas in Red Army? trained to kill?agile PYT hit like a girlCrouching tiger? flying Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-36413684305971858872011-02-09T00:20:00.004-06:002011-02-09T14:31:26.282-06:00The 500 Project: Do You Care about Asian American Literature?Kartika Review and poet Bryan Thao Worra have thrown down the gauntlet. Can we find 500 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders--10 from each state--who love Asian American literature?The 500 Project is seeking responses from Asian Americans in all 50 states. The goal is to find at least 500 "writer activists who will express without equivocation that Asian American literature matters" in order to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-81397831884992914942011-02-02T15:20:00.009-06:002011-02-04T00:34:19.378-06:00Paper Tiger Mother: On Amy ChuaAmy Chua’s new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has provoked controversy for its supposed argument that Chinese mothers are better than American ones. But don’t be fooled. Chua’s book is not about being a Chinese mother. What Chua’s actually doing is inventing a new model of high-stakes, high-pressure, middle-class American parenting—and calling it “Chinese.”Chua’s book leads us into a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-29412730919353175912011-01-01T23:58:00.006-06:002011-01-02T22:29:05.096-06:00Does (Paid) Criticism Matter?The New York Times Book Review has a feature up on “Why Criticism Matters,” with six book critics opining on the continuing value of literary criticism. Is it necessary? Is it dead? Here’s my question: what does the NYT mean by “criticism”? They don’t just mean “reviews,” since (as the editors point out) we’re awash in those, from stars to rotten tomatoes to likes and dislikes. And they Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-31691264598618852082009-01-31T11:03:00.005-06:002009-01-31T11:10:57.537-06:00Race and the Avant-GardeMy new book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, is now available from Stanford University Press. You can get it directly from the press website, through Amazon, or through a really esoteric bookstore near you.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-16525591965945082762008-03-09T16:58:00.008-05:002008-03-09T20:51:38.639-05:00Blogs, Boutiques, and the Public SquareHere's the paper I gave on Thursday about poetry blogs at the "Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay" conference held by the University of Toronto's Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Special thanks to Jonathan Mayhew, Eileen Tabios, and Del Ray Cross, who emailed in response to my call for contributions and whose comments I incorporated into the paper. I didn't see Barbara Jane Reyes's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-66832818224229736652008-02-28T18:15:00.003-06:002008-02-28T18:25:44.701-06:00A Call to Poet-BloggersIf you're a poet who blogs (or someone who blogs about poetry), I'd love to have your input on a talk I'm giving at a conference next Thursday here at the University of Toronto. The conference is on "Markets" and is being sponsored by the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. (Full program in PDF can be found here). I proposed my topic a long time ago, so you'll have to forgive that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-16283123682778105162008-02-06T21:21:00.000-06:002008-02-06T23:22:51.796-06:00Super Tuesday...in TorontoSo there we were, three Americans in Toronto on Tuesday night, watching MSNBC streaming on a Mac desktop monitor and each of us with laptop open on our laps and hitting refresh on our browsers. Nerds.I knew I'd be obsessing about the Super Tuesday results, but it's not like you can go to a Canadian sports bar and demand that they put on CNN. So why not have company? Add that we're all Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-59938500526194144002008-01-22T21:54:00.000-06:002008-01-22T22:26:36.714-06:00Barack vs. BillWhile I'm not crazy about the ongoing Barack Obama-Bill Clinton smackdown, I get why it works for both campaigns.As we saw in the quick "truce" over Hillary's comments on Martin Luther King, Obama and Hillary Clinton realize that direct attacks on each other (especially on volatile issues like race) are tricky. If she attacks him head-on, she risks looking mean-spirited and petty (and at worst Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-71292255103564880722008-01-19T23:18:00.000-06:002008-01-19T23:54:09.133-06:00Obama Wins at Caesars!This is totally awesome. The Nevada Democratic Party site has caucus-by-caucus results, which means you can see exactly how each candidate did at the casino caucuses. The theory was that these at-large caucuses would help Obama, since the culinary workers' union (which represents many casino workers) had endorsed him. It doesn't seem to have worked out that way--Clinton edged him out in most Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-35881139708028889122008-01-19T19:26:00.000-06:002008-01-19T19:32:41.966-06:00Obama and Clinton...Tie?While everyone is reporting that Hillary Clinton has won the Nevada caucuses, it appears that Obama will be awarded more delegates in the end. Quoth DailyKos: "Obama wins Nevada."So...shall we call it a tie and move on?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-300082211241099122008-01-18T23:31:00.001-06:002008-01-18T23:36:02.339-06:00No One Is Safefor Steve HalleDear Mongolian Death Worm,No one is safe from my bureaucracy of cheese. We may as well pretend that this high-salt Easter is a peanut of plenty. But digging deeper we find overt Elizabeth, filthy with time. Yes of course this is straight from the heart.Now I am in my spidersuit and running for Wolf Catcher of the World. Don't think you'll tell me how much you "like" me: I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-86370672404347044942008-01-17T17:48:00.000-06:002008-01-17T18:08:25.992-06:00Al Gore for...VP?Came across this wacky post from the Times (UK) Online suggesting that Al Gore would be a great candidate...for vice president, with Obama at the top of the ticket. Now I think Al Gore is great and all, but this seems like a profoundly dumb idea. (Okay, you can't blame this guy for coming up with the idea: see also here, here, here, and here, for starters.) Here are the columnist's 10 reasons Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-55270125141074548382008-01-16T16:39:00.000-06:002008-01-16T16:45:28.312-06:00Let's Face It...Timothy Yu's Facebook profileIt should also tell you something about where my current energies lie that I'm assuming the only way anyone will even know I'm making posts here is when they see it in the feed on my Facebook profile.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5201472.post-56539471380443112182008-01-16T16:00:00.000-06:002008-01-16T16:36:53.662-06:00BlogstalgiaI am weirdly realizing that this blog has been inactive far longer than it was ever active. Looking back at my archives, it seems like my most active posting period lasted only from about March 2003 (!) to August 2004--just under a year and a half--which was followed by a 6-month gap. So that makes over three years of mostly sporadic posting.Maybe it's not surprising that the urge to blog Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750391255874072498noreply@blogger.com0