The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy

By Mina Loy

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374258724
• ISBN13: 9780374258726
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

If you like T.S. Eliot...

Mina Loy is a treasure waiting to be discovered by the public. In the early 1900's she was part of the Bohemian Greenwich Village art scene, with the likes of Marcell Duchamp and William Carlos Williams. As an individual she was independent, sophisticated, mythical, intelligent, and enigmatic. Her poetry was refined, Surrealist, intellectual, psuedo-scientific, futuristic and abstract. A hundred years ago, when Loy arrived in America, everyone was asking: "Who is this strange woman?" Today, people are still asking this same question. Discover her for yourself.

a must for poets

I came across Loy in reading about the women of Paris. I have never come back to any book more than this one. Her craft of wordsmith continues to inspire and always make me feel like i'm reading the most interesting book of poetry.

The most neglected talent of the century.

As an English major at a respected private college, I did not encounter this phenomenal woman's work. Five years later, I ask myself why. Stunning, intelligent, ground-breaking verse. Mina Loy did not pursue literary fame (though she hobnobbed with the best), and it is, perhaps for this reason that I find her work so intriguing. Unhampered by criticism, Loy's work evokes a rare liberty. It is both poised and raw.See also, BECOMING MODERN (her biography), for further adventures of this feminist, model, actress, painter, poet.