Talk:T. Bruce Yerke

-- mlo (talk) (talk) 09:09, 29 September 2023 (PDT) David Ritter wrote:

we're including a chapter on Arthur Louis Joquel II. Attributed to Joquel in Fancyclopedia is the pseudonym "Fywert Kinge," under which quite a bit of poetry was published. We're prepared to argue that this is incorrect, and that Fywert Kinge was actually T. Bruce Yerke.

Here's some of the evidence: "The poetry booklets can be disposed of easily. Meyer and Kinge are just too, too arty, although Kinge (actually T. Bruce Yerke) has his moments from time to time." https://fanac.org/fanzines/Spacewarp/Spacewarp36-10.html

Wavelength, v. 1, issue 3, Fall 1941 Although I do not know whether "Fywert Kinge" is a real person or simply the pseudonym of T. Bruce Yerke's, I do not think that it is possible to deny him an eminence fully equal to Youd's

https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Memoirs_of_a_Superflous_Fan/Memoirs_of_a_Superflous_Fan01.pdf Yerke implicitly claims the Kinge poetry pampletes on page 19 as part of his fan activity (but he credits their production to Joquel)

https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Shangri-laffaires/Shangri-laffaires-laffaires-seriesb-7-joquel-1942-12.pdf p3 Planned for further future is third volume of Fywert Kinge trilogy, if Kinge can be persuaded to finish the remaining verses of his chronology before Uncle Sam finds need of his services; Joquel was not going to war

Further, Joquel published no poetry under his own name.