Mina Loy

Mina Loy - Songs to Joannes & Other VerseForgotten Poets #7 / forgottenpoets.substack.com'Songs to Joannes & Other Verse' 146 pages] brings together a selection of poems by London poet Mina Loy, later based in Paris and New York, including the entire 34 song sequence, 'Songs to Joannes', and a generous selection of Loy's other verses (originally published 1914-1923), as well as selected short essays, manifestos, and aphorisms; with illustrations by Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and Clara Tice. Loy was a revolutionary poet, and a member of the Futurist and Dada groups in the mid-1910s, and a forerunner to the 'free' and 'new verse' movements of the 1920s.. . . . . . . . .-: From: Songs To Joannes: -Out of the severingOf hill from hillThe interimOf star from starThe nascentStaticOf night. . . . . . . . .-: Gertrude Stein: -CurieOf the laboratoryof vocabularyshe crushedthe tonnageof consciousnesscongealed to phrasesto extracta radium of the word. . . . . . . . .The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free' and 'new' verse from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in.

Mina Loy (Mina Lowy / 1882, Londres - 1966, Aspen, Colorado) fue una poeta modernista cuya obra fuertemente feminista retrat los aspectos m s ntimos de la sexualidad femenina y su vida emocional. Loy comenz a estudiar arte en 1987 en St. John's Wood School en Londres. En 1899 dej Inglaterra para estudiar pintura en Munich, Alemania, y luego viaj a Par s en 1902. En 1907 viaj a Florencia y entr en contacto con los futuristas. Gertrude Stein y otros artistas y escritores expatriados alentaron las tendencias modernistas de Loy. Ya en 1913 la poeta estaba utilizando teor as futuristas en la literatura para promover la pol tica feminista desde su trabajo. En 1915 public "Love Songs" para la revista modernista Others, y en 1916 se uni al movimiento vanguardista de la ciudad de Nueva York, ganando elogios de los contempor neos modernistas William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound y T. S. Eliot. En "Songs to Jannes" de 1917 (una expansi n de "Love Songs"). Una completa colecci n de su obra, The Last Lunar Baedeker, apareci en 1982.

Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications, and has included all of the futurist and feminist satires, poems from Loy's Paris and New York periods, and the complete cycle of "Love Songs," as well as previously unknown texts and detailed notes.

Two never-before-published novels by Mina Loy, the celebrated modernist poet, artist, and feminist Mina Loy (1882–1966) is an essential figure of the European and American modernist avant-garde. A groundbreaking writer of poetry, novels, essays, plays, and uncategorizable prose, she was also a fashion and lighting designer and an accomplished visual artist. As gallery agent for figures such as Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Giacometti, and Salvador Dalí, she was a significant conduit for art that traversed the Atlantic. Loy has been best known for the poetry she published in the little magazines of the late teens and early twenties, most notably the long poem “Songs to Joannes” and the autobiographical verse-epic “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose.” Featuring two never-before-published manuscripts of Loy’s autobiographical prose—The Child and the Parent and Islands in the Air—this remarkable book expands Loy’s rich oeuvre. Interlinked texts written over twenty years, from the 1930s to the 1950s, these fascinating works narrate the feminist struggle of the creative spirit as it comes into consciousness and encounters indoctrinating social norms. The works are accompanied by an introduction and afterword by Karla Kelsey that frame Loy as a poet, prose writer, businesswoman, and visual artist and discuss the texts, their stylistic innovations, and their unique interconnectedness.

Reassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper’s Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century American photography and graphic design This lavishly illustrated volume explores the influence and significance of the Russian-born photographer, designer, and instructor Alexey Brodovitch (1898–1971), best known for his art directorship of the American fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar between 1934 and 1958, as well as his tutelage of many celebrated documentary and fashion photographers, including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Eve Arnold, and Lillian Bassman. Though disparate in their aesthetic approaches, these figures are unified by their responses to Brodovitch’s dictum to “astonish me.” The authors address Brodovitch’s impact on photography as an artistic medium in the mid-twentieth century and explore how European art and design became the foundation of a new American print culture. Brodovitch’s own work will be illuminated through his personal projects—such as the magazine Portfolio and the photographic project Ballet, which depicted performances of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in the United States (whose evolution echoed Brodovitch’s own émigré condition). Case studies of his transformative collaborations with photographers such as Arnold, Avedon, Penn, Lisette Model, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hans Namuth, and André Kertész reveal pivotal encounters that may surprise even the most ardent photography aficionado. An illustrated chronology offers an important tool for scholars on this influential but often overlooked figure. Distributed for the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Schedule: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (March 3–May 19, 2024)

Mina Loy ble født i London, men regnes ofte blant de amerikanske lyrikerne i Ezra Pounds "stall". Selv benektet hun at hun var dikter. Kanskje følte hun seg ikke hjemme i rollen? Hun vekslet hele livet mellom kunstneriske uttrykk; hun var utdannet kunstmaler i London og München, livnærte seg og ble berømt som lampemaker i Paris. Da hun bodde i Firenze var hun dypt engasjert i futurismen og skrev manifester, bl.a. agiterte hun for klinisk fjerning av møydommen, og for at: "Kvinner måtte ødelegge den trangen de har til å bli elsket for enhver pris." Med sin jødisk/engelske bakgrunn passet hun dårlig blant de fascistiske futuristene. Hun passet sjelden inn noe sted. På 40-tallet levde hun blant uteliggere i New York, og hun døde glemt og nærmest ukjent i Colorado i 1966.

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.