{"product_id":"the-tower-by-paul-legault","title":"Legault, Paul: The Tower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/em\u003e by Paul Legault (Coach House Books, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 14, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/em\u003e is a 'translation of W. B. Yeats's The Tower--an homage and reinvention of the poet's greatest work. Whereas Yeats's book contended with his mortality as an aging spiritualist Irish Senator, this version contends with a new mortality: ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this collection crystallize the transition from Legault's late twenties to his early thirties, situated in North America during a time of political upheaval. It takes each of Yeats's poems as a starting point and queers them. It translates Yeats's modernist urge, on the other side of a long century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her review of \u003cem\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/em\u003e, Virginia Woolf says Yeats has 'never written more exactly and more passionately.' One might imagine she'd conclude the same here. You can't fault these poems for lacking passion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31304813051927,"sku":"9781552454114","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_d1a1fc81-0e37-4880-825c-586ea23fe4b8.jpg?v=1585610475","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/the-tower-by-paul-legault","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}