When White Poets Pretend to Be AsianWhen it comes to literary hoaxes, it seems somehow easier to fake Asia, a land still distant and inscrutable to many Americans.Photograph by Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty In 1991, literary magazines around the United States began receiving mysterious packages containing the poems of Araki Yasusada, a deceased and entirely unknown Japanese poet with a spectacular backstory: he was a lonesome Hiroshim
