Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
Posthumously launched as the "electric-age Blake", Mina Loy's futurist techniques were unlike anything British critics had seen before; her subjects - sex, parturitiion, prostitution, suicide, addiction, retardation - were considered shocking even by some modernists. Updating and correcting the earlier book, this edition features previously unknown works by Loy rescued from Dada archives and avant-garde magazines. All of Loy's futurist and feminist satires are included, as are the poems from her Paris and New York periods, the cycle of "Love Songs", and her portraits-in-verse which define the trajectory of her favoured company and geography - from fellow modernist Joyce and Brancusi in Paris in the 1920s to fellow destitutes in New York's Lower East Side in the 1940s.
"[Mina Loy] may now be launched on a posthumous career as the electric-age Blake"--Hugh Kenner, "The Washington Times" "Mina Loy has finally been admitted into 'the company of poets, ' the canon. As if she cared."--Thom Gunn, "The Times Literary Supplement"
Mina Loy was born in 1882, but has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. Pound, Moore and Williams valued her work, whilst British critics scorned it. Her futurist techniques and subject matters were considered shocking as she explored, sexual love, prostitution, suicide and addiction. She had all but vanished from the literary scene, until Carcanet introduced her work to British readers in 1985 in Roger Conover's The Last Lunar Baedeker, which recovered lost works from Dada archives and avant-garde magazines. In America she has been posthumously launched as the electric-age Blake and she has been translated in French and Italian; in the TLS Thom Gunn compared her to the great Augustan satirists. In 1997 Carcanet published The Lost Lunar Baedeker, a selection of her work edited by Roger L. Conover. Her collection defines the trajectory of her favoured company and geography - from Joyce in Paris in the 1920s to fellow destitutes in New York's Lower East Side in the 1940s. ROGER CONOVER is the senior editor at MIT Press, where he publishes books on art, architecture, modernism and theory. He is the author of many essays on Mina Loy and Arthur Cravan, whose biography he is writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857543261 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857543262 |
| Title | Lost Lunar Baedeker |
| Author | Mina Loy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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