Mina Loy: Woman and Poet represents the first substantial collection of criticism devoted to this long neglected major Modernist poet. This collection draws together essays from a prominent group of international poetry scholars, including Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kathleen Fraser, Barbara Guess, Marjorie Perloff and Peter Quartermain, along with a previously unpublished interview with Loy and an annotated bibliography of works by and about Loy. Loy made a career of friendship, and actively participated in the Futurist ...
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Mina Loy: Woman and Poet represents the first substantial collection of criticism devoted to this long neglected major Modernist poet. This collection draws together essays from a prominent group of international poetry scholars, including Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kathleen Fraser, Barbara Guess, Marjorie Perloff and Peter Quartermain, along with a previously unpublished interview with Loy and an annotated bibliography of works by and about Loy. Loy made a career of friendship, and actively participated in the Futurist movement in Italy before World War I. 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 critics, including 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.
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