The Lost Lunar Baedeker Poems of Mina Loy

by Loy, Mina; Conover, Roger L.

• ISBN13: 9780374525071
• ISBN10: 0374525072
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-08
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
"There is no Life or Death"	p. 3
Parturition	p. 4
Italian Pictures	p. 9
Three Moments in Paris	p. 15
Sketch of a Man on a Platform	p. 19
Virgin Plus Curtains Minus Dots	p. 21
Babies in Hospital	p. 24
Giovanni Franchi	p. 27
At the Door of the House	p. 33
The Effectual Marriage	p. 36
Human Cylinders	p. 40
The Black Virginity	p. 42
Ignoramus	p. 44
Lions' Jaws	p. 46
Songs to Joannes	p. 53
O Hell	p. 71
The Dead	p. 72
Mexican Desert	p. 74
Perlun	p. 75
Poe	p. 76
Apology of Genius	p. 77
Brancusi's Golden Bird	p. 79
Lunar Baedeker	p. 81
Der Blinde Junge	p. 83
Crab-Angel	p. 85
Joyce's Ulysses	p. 88
"The Starry Sky" of Wyndham Lewis	p. 91
Marble	p. 93
Gertrude Stein	p. 94
The Widow's Jazz	p. 95
Lady Laura in Bohemia	p. 98
The Mediterranean Sea	p. 101
Nancy Cunard	p. 103
Jules Pascin	p. 104
On Third Avenue	p. 109
Mass-Production on 14th Street	p. 111
Idiot Child on a Fire-Escape	p. 114
Aid of the Madonna	p. 115
Ephemerid	p. 116
Chiffon Velours	p. 119
Property of Pigeons	p. 120
Photo After Pogrom	p. 122
Time-Bomb	p. 123
Omen of Victory	p. 124
Film-Face	p. 125
Faun Fare	p. 126
Letters of the Unliving	p. 129
Hot Cross Bum	p. 133
An Aged Woman	p. 145
Moreover, the Moon---	p. 146
Aphorisms on Futurism	p. 149
Feminist Manifesto	p. 153
Modern Poetry	p. 157
Preceptors of Childhood	p. 162
Auto-Facial-Construction	p. 165
App. Editorial Guidelines and Considerations	p. 169
App. Notes on the Text	p. 175
App. Three Early Poems	p. 219
App. "Love Songs" (1923)	p. 224
App. Other Writings	p. 230
App. Tables of Contents	p. 233
Acknowledgments	p. 235
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