The Lost Lunar Baedeker Poems of Mina Loy
by Loy, Mina; Conover, Roger L.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-04-08
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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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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