Maeera Shreiber and Keith Tuma, Editors
This volume, the 15th in NPF's Man/Woman and Poet Series, offers a comprehensive biographical, critical, and bibliographic overview of Mina Loy's career. Illustrated.
Table of Contents
MAEERA SHREIBER AND KEITH TUMA Introduction
I. Love Songs To Joannes
ERIC MURPHY SELINGER
Love in the Time of Melancholia
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
"Seismic Orgasm": 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
"Little Lusts and Lucidities": Reading Mina Loy's Love Songs
II. 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"
III. Enter Mina Loy
CAROLYN BURKE
Introduction to Mina Loy interview with Paul Blackburn and Robert Vas
Dias
MINA LOY
Interview with Paul Blackburn and Robert Vas Dias
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
MAEERA SHREIBER
Divine Women, Fallen Angels: The Late Devotional Poetry of Mina Loy
IV. 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
V. Bibliography
MARISA JANUZZI
A Bibliography of Works By and About Mina Loy
1998 640 pages Cloth $60.00 (0943373-42-5)
Paper $30.00 (0-943373-43-3)