Paul Legault
{{short description|Canadian-American poet (born 1985)}}
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| name = Paul Legault
| image = Paul Legault sketch.jpg
| caption = line drawing of Paul Legault
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|6|25}}
| birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| occupation = Writer, translator, publisher
| education = University of Virginia (MFA)
University of Southern California (BFA)
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Paul Legault ({{IPAc-en|l|ə|ˈ|ɡ|oʊ}} {{respell|lə|GOH}}; born June 25, 1985) is a Canadian-American poet.
Life
Legault was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in Tennessee.{{cite web|url=http://www.omnidawn.com/legault/index.htm |title=Omnidawn |publisher=Omnidawn |accessdate=March 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120909155147/http://www.omnidawn.com/legault/index.htm |archivedate=September 9, 2012 |df=mdy-all }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://college.usc.edu/news/stories/644/taking-a-poetic-path/ |title=Taking a Poetic Path > News > USC College |publisher=College.usc.edu |date= |accessdate=March 4, 2011 |archive-date=February 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226082753/https://college.usc.edu/news/stories/644/taking-a-poetic-path/ |url-status=live }}
He is a co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books.{{cite web|url=http://www.telephonejournal.org/about_us.html |title=About Telephone Journal |publisher=Telephonejournal.org |accessdate=March 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410202919/http://www.telephonejournal.org/about_us.html |archivedate=April 10, 2011 |df=mdy-all }} 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.denverquarterly.com/display.cfm?call_number=42 |title=Past |publisher=Denverquarterly.com |date= |accessdate=March 4, 2011 |archive-date=July 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709013308/http://www.denverquarterly.com/display.cfm?call_number=42 |url-status=live }} Field, The Literati Quarterly, Pleiades and other journals.
From 2013 to 2015, he lived in St. Louis, Missouri,{{cite web|url=http://www.thebridgepai.com/2010/10/gabrielle-calvocoressi-and-paul-legault/ |title=Reading Series presents: Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Paul Legault — The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative |publisher=Thebridgepai.com |date=November 16, 2010 |accessdate=March 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716223247/http://www.thebridgepai.com/2010/10/gabrielle-calvocoressi-and-paul-legault/ |archivedate=July 16, 2011 |df=mdy-all}} 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). {{OCLC|1132264315}}
- Lunch Poems 2 (Spork, 2018). {{OCLC|1040263726}}
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence, 2016). {{OCLC|908071998}}
- The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (McSweeney's, 2012). {{OCLC|773669701}}
- The Other Poems (Fence, 2011). {{OCLC|759935382}}
- The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010). {{OCLC|838378158}}
=Edited anthology=
- The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat/Telephone, 2012). {{OCLC|785870535}}
References
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External links
- [http://theotherpaul.com/ "Author's site"]
- [http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4756 "An Interview with Paul Legault", BOMB, 15. Dec, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303173636/http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4756 |date=March 3, 2011 }}
- [http://www.distranslation.com/ "Telephone"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113194700/http://distranslation.com/ |date=January 13, 2013 }}
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