Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy by Tara Prescott

By Tara Prescott

Mina Loy—poet, artist, exile, and luminary—was a well-liked and famous determine within the paintings and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and long island within the early years of the 20th century. yet over the years, she steadily receded from public attention and her poetry went out of print. As a part of the stream to introduce the paintings of this cryptic poet to trendy audiences, Poetic Salvage: analyzing Mina Loy provides new and designated explications of Loy’s so much redolent poems. This ebook is helping readers achieve a greater figuring out of the physique of Loy’s paintings as an entire by way of delivering compelling shut readings that discover the resource fabrics that encouraged Loy’s poetry, together with smooth paintings, Baedeker travel courses, or even long-forgotten cultural venues. Helpfully keyed to the contents of Loy’s Lost Lunar Baedeker, edited via Roger Conover, this publication is a vital reduction for brand spanking new readers and students alike. Mina Loy solid a legacy important of significant consideration—through a convention top understood as salvage paintings, of reclaiming what has been see you later obscured. Poetic Salvage: analyzing Mina Loy dives deep to deliver hidden treasures to the outside.

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