Description
Poetry. In SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR 2, Legault attempts to recall each of the poems in John Ashbery's book, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, from memory.
Ashbery's poetry doesn't rhyme. It is difficult to memorize. His poems often describe their own process of thinking—the way thought meanders, the way it repeats—expanding the capacity of what can be written, or read. In this book, Paul Legault writes in an Ashberyian mode, describing the difficulties and pleasures of setting out to write like somebody else, someone as influential and hypnotic as John Ashbery.
Author Bio
Paul Legault is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence Books, 2011), The Emily Dickinson Reader: an English-to-English Translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (McSweeney's, 2012), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence Books, 2016), and LUNCH POEMS 2 (Spork Press, 2018). Legault was born in Canada. He lives in New York.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA