The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy Book

Roger L. Conover, the editor of this excellent posthumous collection, has done the poetry-reading world quite a favor. Many of these poems originally appeared in long-defunct and nearly forgotten avant-garde journals, and have never before been available in book form. Mina Loy was a favorite of the other modernists (Ezra Pound thought she was as important a writer as William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore), and the energy in her writing is truly impressive. Here's a taste, from "Mexican Desert": "The belching ghost-wail of the locomotive / trailing her rattling wooden tail / into the jazz-band sunset ... " Included here, too, are Loy's essays about poetry, futurism, and feminism. Read More

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  • Product Description

    A definitive anthology of the poetry of one of America's forgotten modernist poets, a women who shocked even fellow modernists with her technique and choice of subject matter, includes her futurist and feminist satires, the complete cycle of ""Love Songs,"" and other major works.

  • 0374258724
  • 9780374258726
  • Mina Loy, Roger L. Conover
  • Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 236
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