Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2

In 1975 John Ashbery published Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror 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 dream [...]
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In 1975 John Ashbery published Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror 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.From "As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat 2": I tried the immortal things--some of them were free.
The glass in front of us stopped us
At least for a while, waiting for the light to do its thing: sift
Through the previously unwaded-through season
Like someone named Autumn, walking aroundIn autumn. The dispatcher mimics the dispatch
Simultaneously to its arrival. The controlled environment
Became compromised by a Circean power. We decided
Who'd come in. I wasn't going anywhere,
Me having filled my white pockets;
But if you'd mentioned the time, I would've suggested
We rise to the occasions. Things weren't necessarily lost,
But that, like whether we could feed the entire company,
Depended on where you stood--and in what structure.Paul Legault 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.