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. .
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