Thursday, April 7, 2016

Calvin Trillin is quite a gourmet

As well as a fairly good poet,some would say

though others claim that he learned nothing at Yale

and would be a better writer having spent four years in jail.

But now he really seems to have gotten himself in a stew

with more than few

Chinese who

wish he hadn't published his latest New

Yorker verse --at least not in its current version--

but instead, should have gone to some restaurants Persian.

Though then, I suppose some Ayatollah might issue a Fatwa

criticizing the United States in addition to him and his patois

and in harsh language that bristles --

include threats of nuclear missiles?

HzL

4/7/16

Calvin Trillin defends his Chinese food poem in the New Yorker amid criticism

The 80-year-old writer is facing accusations of racism (at worst) and tone-deafness (at best) over his poem about Chinese food in the New Yorker

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