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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 earlier book, this edition
features previously unknown works by Loy rescued from Dada archives
and avant-garde magazines. All of Loy's futurist and feminist
satires are included, as are the poems from her Paris and New York
periods, the cycle of "Love Songs", and her portraits-in-verse
which define the trajectory of her favoured company and geography -
from fellow modernist Joyce and Brancusi in Paris in the 1920s to
fellow destitutes in New York's Lower East Side in the 1940s.
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 all of the futurist and
feminist satires, poems from Loy's Paris and New York periods, and
the complete cycle of "Love Songs," as well as previously unknown
texts and detailed notes.
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