'Hate mail is, in a way, a reward.'
There’s only so many times people can threaten to kill you before you start to wonder if they might be serious., and it’s a little genre-bending: a photo-illustrated, 224-page prose poem about my seven years meeting and interviewing refugees who came to the United States, exploring the new lives they built. It’s an intentionally lyric work, an intentionally American work, and an intentionally hopeful work.
And yet. My first book, on American poets, would occasionally earn a note from a poet who’s been excluded— sometimes, a reminder that some people can push a noun against a verb to blow something up, but more often a clear and inarticulate demonstration of why the person was excluded in the first place.
I’ve been writing the piece you’re currently reading for about a month. Teetering back and forth, weighing the pros and cons about whether to weigh in at all, I sat down for conversations with about eight different people I know who I’d heard received lots of negative attention: museum curators, photojournalists, writers, a politician. But the one that struck closest was a comedian being dead serious.
“My response is to keep going,” says Hofstetter, “and get on stage and ask why Britney needs a conservatorship, and Kanye doesn’t.”
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