Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications, and has included a[...]
Stories and Essays of Mina Loy is the first book-length volume of Mina Loy s narrative writings and critical work ever published. This volume brings together her short fiction, as well as hybrid works that include modernized fairy tales, a Socratic dialogue, and a ballet. Loy s narratives address is[...]
Posthumously launched as the "electric-age Blake", Mina Loy's futurist techniques were unlike anything British critics had seen before; her subjects - sex, parturitiion, prostitution, suicide, addiction, retardation - were considered shocking even by some modernists. Updating and correcting the earl[...]
The Salt Companion to Mina Loy comprises ten essays by leading scholars and writers on the work of modernist poet Mina Loy. Loy (1882-1966) formed part of the new generation of poets who revolutionised writing in the early twentieth century. She had personal and artistic links to Italian Futurism an[...]
Mina Loy är en av de legendariska gestalterna från den tidiga modernismen. Född i England kom hon att spela biroller inom såväl den italienska futurismen som den amerikanska modernismen och det internationella författarlivet i efterkrigstidens Paris. Hon var konstnär och författare, framför[...]