{"product_id":"self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror-3","title":"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2","description":"Used paperback in Very Good condition. \u003cp\u003eIn 1975 John Ashbery published \u003ci\u003eSelf Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e and the book won the three major American prizes--the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now it has won an oppositional-compliant ardent admirer in Paul Legault, who relates directly and dreamily to each poem, from memory, face en face. The relationship is complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat 2\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI tried the immortal things--some of them were free.\u003cbr\u003e The glass in front of us stopped us\u003cbr\u003e At least for a while, waiting for the light to do its thing: sift\u003cbr\u003e Through the previously unwaded-through season\u003cbr\u003e Like someone named Autumn, walking around\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn autumn. The dispatcher mimics the dispatch\u003cbr\u003e Simultaneously to its arrival. The controlled environment\u003cbr\u003e Became compromised by a Circean power. We decided\u003cbr\u003e Who'd come in. I wasn't going anywhere,\u003cbr\u003e Me having filled my white pockets;\u003cbr\u003e But if you'd mentioned the time, I would've suggested\u003cbr\u003e We rise to the occasions. Things weren't necessarily lost,\u003cbr\u003e But that, like whether we could feed the entire company,\u003cbr\u003e Depended on where you stood--and in what structure.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Legault\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ontario and raised in Tennessee. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia and a BFA in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. Legault is the co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books and the author of three books of poetry. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and serves as a writer-in-residence at Washington University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Legault, Paul","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53876242841883,"sku":"mon0000686504","price":11.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/18077293482876_9a6c6934-3ab9-4352-a02c-be728e29b789.jpg?v=1788537082","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror-3","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}