I first saw this in the Paris Review Daily, where they didn't mention Alexie's goal was to add more women and minorities to the mix. The result was a very different read, with Hudson being seen as a slightly idiot and jerk writer, who also managed to prove a point. But that little tidbit disproves that point completely. I'm slightly surprised by the Paris Review really. I like that Alexie isn't trying to avoid the controversy he knew would come from this though, discussion is necessary. _refugee_ (or anyone else): have you read Rexroth's 100 Poems from the Chinese or 100 Poems from the Japanese. The idea was practically the exact opposite of Hudson's in that Rexroth was using his own name to write poems lossely based on ("in the spirit of") older Asian poems. How would you compare that to this?