Research Catalog

Title

Mina Loy : woman and poet / edited by Maeera Shreiber and Keith Tuma.

Publication

Orono : National Poetry Foundation ; London : University Press (distributor,) 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Tuma, Keith, 1957-
• Shreiber, Maeera, 1956-
• National Poetry Foundation (U.S.)

Description

639 p. : ill., ports; 24 cm.

Summary

"Mina Loy: Woman and Poet represents the first substantial collection of criticism devoted to this long neglected major Modernist poet."--BOOK JACKET. "Loy (1882-1966) made a career of friendship. Before World War I, she actively participated in the Futurist movement in Italy. During the war years she was a friend and associate of William Carlos Williams and other writers associated with New York Dada. In the 1920s, she was a vivid presence in the Paris literary scene. Her poems during these years were saluted by such critics as Ezra Pound, who linked her to Marianne Moore. But in the 1930s she gradually disappeared from sight, and she is the last major Modernist poet to be recovered."--Jacket.

Series Statement

[Modern poets series]

Uniform Title

• [Modern poets series].
• Modern poets series.

Subject

• Loy, Mina > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• American poetry > History and criticism
• Poets, American > 20th century > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Love in the time of melancholia / Eric Murphy Selinger -- "Seismic orgasm" : sexual intercourse and narrative meaning in Mina Loy / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- "The tattle of tongueplay" : Mina Loy's love songs / Peter Quartermain -- "Love is a lyric / of bodies" : the negative aesthetics of Mina Loy's love songs to Joannes / Maeera Shreiber -- "Little lusts and lucidities" : reading Mina Loy's Love songs / Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas -- English as a "second" language : Mina Loy's "Anglo-mongrels and the rose" / Marjorie Perloff -- Mina Loy's "mongrel" poetics / Elisabeth A. Frost -- Mina Loy's "Anglo-mongrels and the rose" / Keith Tuma -- Mina Loy interview with Paul Blackburn and Robert Vas Dias / introduction by Carolyn Burke ; transcribed by Marisa Januzzi and Carolyn Burke -- Mina Loy : poet of the century / Roger L. Conover -- Imna, Ova, mongrel, spy : anagram and imposture in the work of Mina Loy / Susan Gilmore -- Playing with elegy : Mina Loy's poetry of mourning / Anita Helle --^
• "Everyman his own fluoroscope" : Mina Loy's Insel between aura and image machine / Tyrus Miller -- The irreducible surplus of abstraction : Mina Loy on Brancusi and the futurists / Ellen Keck Stauder -- Mina Loy's pregnant pauses : the space of possibility in the Florence writings / Janet Lyon -- Mongrel rose : the "unerring esperanto" of Loy's poetry / Marisa Januzzi -- Mina Loy, fashion, and the avant-garde / Susan E. Dunn -- The "infinitarian" and her "macro-cosmic presence" : the question of Loy and Chistian Science / Richard Cook -- Divine women, fallen angels : the late devotional poetry of Mina Loy / Maeera Shreiber -- "Contingent circumstances" : Mina Loy/Basil Bunting / Kathleen Fraser -- A few words about Mina Loy / Norma Cole -- Note on Mina Loy / Barbara Guest -- A letter on Loy / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Tantrik Loy / Anne Waldman --^
• Bibliography : published works by Loy, in order of appearance, including artworks in reproduction and significant posthumous publications / compiled by Marisa Januzzi.

ISBN

• 0943373425
• 0943373433 (pbk)

LCCN

^^^96072053^

OCLC

• 40981601
• SCSB-11290500

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library