Mina Loy: Woman and Poet
Edited by Maeera Shreiber and Keith Tuma
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CONTENTS
Love Songs to Joannes
Eric Murphy Selinger, “Love in the Time of Melancholia”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “‘Seismic Organism’: Sexual Intercourse and Narrative Meaning in Mina Loy”
Peter Quartermain, “‘The Tattle of Tongueplay’: Mina Loy’s Love Songs”
Maeera Shreiber, “‘Love Is a Lyric / of Bodies’: The Negative Aesthetics of Mina Loy’s Love Songs to Joannes”
Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, “‘Little Lusts and Lucidities’: Reading Mina Loy’s Love Songs”
Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose
Marjorie Perloff, “English as a ‘Second’ Language: Mina Loy’s ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’”
Elisabeth Frost, “Mina Loy’s ‘Mongrel’ Poetics”
Keith Tuma, “Mina Loy’s ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’”
Enter Mina Loy
Mina Loy: Interview with Paul Blackburn and Robert Vas Dias, introduction by Carolyn Burke
Roger Conover, “(Re) Introducing Mina Loy”
Susan Gilmore, “Imna, Ova, Mongrel, Spy: Anagram and Imposture in the Work of Mina Loy”
Anita Helle, “Playing with Elegy: Mina Loy’s Poetry of Mourning”
Tyrus Miller, “‘Everyman His Own Fluroscope’: Mina Loy’s Insel Between Aura and Image Machine”
Ellen Keck Stauder, “Mina Loy on Brancusi and the Futurists”
Janet Lyon, “Mina Loy’s Pregnant Pauses: The Space of Possibility in the Florence Writings”
Marisa Januzzi, “Mongrel Rose: The ‘Unerring Esperanto’ of Loy’s Poetry”
Susan E. Dunn, “Mina Loy, Fashion, and the Avant-Garde”
Richard Cook, “The ‘Infinitarian’ and Her ‘Macro-Cosmic Presence’: The Question of Loy and Christian Science”
A Poet’s Corner
Kathleen Fraser, “‘Contingent Circumstances’: Mina Loy/Basil Bunting”
Norma Cole, “A Few Words About Mina Loy”
Barbara Guest, “Note on Mina Loy”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “A Letter on Loy”
Anne Waldman, “Tantrik Loy”
Bibliography
Marisa Januzzi, “A Bibliography of Works By and About Mina Loy”
