The Tower

An homage and a reinvention, The Tower revisits Yeats’s greatest work, queering the considerations of mortality by an aging spiritualist for our own tumultuous times and ‘translating’ Yeats’s modernist urge on the other side of a long century. It undulates between being excited and being blasé, as if Legault holds the world on his phone and is scrolling infinitely through it.


Yeats used to talk to ghosts. So Legault talked to Yeats’s ghost. This is him talking back.


"What is the difference between 'millennial' and 'millenarian'...? I forgot while I was reading these modern – not unromantic – poems. Apocalypse has never sounded so funny. Juno’s peacock is screaming." – Sarah Nicole Prickett


"Giddily Paul Legault traipses through the classics and makes them quiver with an anachronistic affectless delight they didn’t know they were permitted to feel. The Tower continues his project of rubbing the old songs to produce blissful new serums. It’s Oedipal. It’s also exegetical. How he manages to extract such tonally exacting fun from fallen fruit is a secret I beg him never to divulge." – Wayne Koestenbaum