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MINA LOY: WOMAN AND POET

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)