Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke. 1996 FSG, first edition, 494 pages. Loy was a British modernist poet and artist. According to the Poetry Foundation: "Loy's contemporaries made a legend of her beauty and personal tragedy; literary historians occasionally remembered her as an exotic fringe figure of the American and Dada avant-gardes. Then in the 1940s and 1950s began the rediscovery of Mina Loy by the radical current of modernism (running from Stein, Pound, and Williams to Kenneth Rexroth and the Black Mountain poets), and in the succeeding decades feminist poets and critics recognized in Loy a very contemporary ancestor." Burke's biography was one of the first of this neglected poet.
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke. 1996 FSG, first edition, 494 pages. Loy was a British modernist poet and artist. According to the Poetry Foundation: "Loy's contemporaries made a legend of her beauty and personal tragedy; literary historians occasionally remembered her as an exotic fringe figure of the American and Dada avant-gardes. Then in the 1940s and 1950s began the rediscovery of Mina Loy by the radical current of modernism (running from Stein, Pound, and Williams to Kenneth Rexroth and the Black Mountain poets), and in the succeeding decades feminist poets and critics recognized in Loy a very contemporary ancestor." Burke's biography was one of the first of this neglected poet.
Condition: VG