Paul Legault ( ; born June 25, 1985) is a Canadian-American poet.

Life

Legault was born in Ottawa,

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, and raised in

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. He graduated from the

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, where he obtained a BFA in screenwriting, and the

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, where he earned an MFA in creative writing. He is a co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books. 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'', ''Field'', ''The Literati Quarterly'', ''Pleiades'' and other journals. From 2013 to 2015, he lived in

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, Missouri, serving as a writer-in-residence at

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. Currently, he lives in

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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'' (

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, 2012). *''The Other Poems'' (Fence, 2011). *''The Madeleine Poems'' (Omnidawn, 2010).

Edited anthology

*''The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare'' (Nightboat/Telephone, 2012).

References

External links

"Author's site"

"An Interview with Paul Legault", ''BOMB'', 15. Dec, 2010

"''Telephone''"
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