{"product_id":"9781934200933","title":"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2","description":"\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\u003eThe glass in front of us stopped us\u003cbr\u003eAt least for a while, waiting for the light to do its thing: sift\u003cbr\u003eThrough the previously unwaded-through season\u003cbr\u003eLike someone named Autumn, walking around\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn autumn. The dispatcher mimics the dispatch\u003cbr\u003eSimultaneously to its arrival. The controlled environment\u003cbr\u003e Became compromised by a Circean power. We decided\u003cbr\u003eWho'd come in. I wasn't going anywhere,\u003cbr\u003eMe having filled my white pockets;\u003cbr\u003eBut if you'd mentioned the time, I would've suggested\u003cbr\u003eWe rise to the occasions. Things weren't necessarily lost,\u003cbr\u003eBut that, like whether we could feed the entire company,\u003cbr\u003eDepended 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fence Magazine, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039632244976,"sku":"9781934200933","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934200933_p0.jpg?v=1763641173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934200933","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}