was yet another pseudonym. There were a number of rumors about other supposed co-authors, including the leading avant-garde Mexican composer, Javier Alvarez, who appears as co-editor of the work with Johnson. Publishers demanded their money back and criticized the hoax. Wesleyan cancelled the publication of the poetry collection. Some critics noticed that Johnson had published similar poetry in 1986 under the name of Ogiwara Miyamori, in Ironwood magazine. Criticism After the 'hoax' was discovered, several journals rejected previously accepted poems. The hoax has allegedly been called "a criminal act" by Arthur Vogelsang, editor of American Poetry Review, which had previously published a special supplement of Yasusada poems, including an alleged portrait of the author, but in letters to the Boston Review he denied having used the phrase. But numerous critics were supportive, praising both the conceptual nature of the fiction and the quality of the writing, including Roof Books that published the entire text in 1997. References External links Search of the Authentic Other, by Marjorie Perloff The Yasusada Affair: Ethics of Aesthetics (an exchange between Kent Johnson and Akitoshi Nagahata) Thoughts on Araki Yasusada and the Author, by Kent Johnson Hyper-Authorship: The Case of Araki Yasusada The Hiroshima Poetry Hoax "Ruthven’s Faking Literature, Forging Literature and Faking Forged Literature" Three Footnotes: Eliot Weinberger Eliot Weinberger on the Yasusada affair The Recourse of Hoax: Orthodox Modern Readings of Araki Yasusada and Alan Sokal. Tamkang Journal (2010) Literary forgeries Nonexistent people used in hoaxes Fictional Japanese people Fictional poets