Paul Legault Explained
Paul Legault (; born June 25, 1985) is a Canadian-American poet.
Life
Legault was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Tennessee.[1] He graduated from the University of Southern California, where he obtained a BFA in screenwriting, and the University of Virginia, where he earned an MFA in creative writing.[2]
He is a co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books.[3] Since 2010, his output has taken on characteristics similar to Kenneth Koch works such as One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays, with absurdist miniature dialogues between animate, inanimate, or abstract characters. In 2012, he released terse English-to-English translations of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
His writing has been published in The Awl, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,[4] Field, The Literati Quarterly, Pleiades and other journals.
From 2013 to 2015, he lived in St. Louis, Missouri,[5] serving as a writer-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he lives in New York City.
Bibliography
Collections
- The Tower (Coach House Books, 2020).
- Lunch Poems 2 (Spork, 2018).
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence, 2016).
- The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (McSweeney's, 2012).
- The Other Poems (Fence, 2011).
- The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010).
Edited anthology
- The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat/Telephone, 2012).
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Omnidawn . Omnidawn . March 4, 2011 . dead . https://archive.today/20120909155147/http://www.omnidawn.com/legault/index.htm . September 9, 2012 . mdy-all .
- Web site: Taking a Poetic Path > News > USC College . College.usc.edu . March 4, 2011 . February 26, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110226082753/https://college.usc.edu/news/stories/644/taking-a-poetic-path/ . live .
- Web site: About Telephone Journal . Telephonejournal.org . March 4, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110410202919/http://www.telephonejournal.org/about_us.html . April 10, 2011 . mdy-all .
- Web site: Past . Denverquarterly.com . March 4, 2011 . July 9, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110709013308/http://www.denverquarterly.com/display.cfm?call_number=42 . live .
- Web site: Reading Series presents: Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Paul Legault — The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative . Thebridgepai.com . November 16, 2010 . March 4, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716223247/http://www.thebridgepai.com/2010/10/gabrielle-calvocoressi-and-paul-legault/ . July 16, 2011 . mdy-all.
