description: Poetry. MIDAS is a (golden) poem is three "Masks," "Loot," and "Lustrations." Many quotations are included in the text -- some from the Arthur Golding 1567 translation of The Metamorphoses and others from various ancient and modern sources (noted elegantly in the margins). "King Midas' diamond mind / asking instant aurifex fired the world, &amp; faulted.// Midas rises / from his throne in Turkey masked in light / hammered from its material component to resemble / the finest Mycenean Midas disguised as an Agamemnon of baubles, his / riches each wretched." ("Masks") Peter O'Leary lives in Chicago where he is working on his dissertation on Robert Duncan for the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. With his brother Michael he edits the magazine LVNG and the LVNG Supolementary Series.
language: English
title: Midas
titlecomplete: Midas
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publisher: Meeting Eyes Bindery