Tara Prescott

Poetic Salvage

Reading Mina Loy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides new explications of Loyâ s most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loyâ s composition process, and compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired her poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and long-forgotten cultural venues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781611488128
• ISBN-10: 1611488125
• Artikelnr.: 45809156

Autorenporträt

Tara Prescott is a lecturer in writing programs at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Mina Loy: Her Life and Lifework An Aesthetic Invitation
Part I: FUTURISM X FEMINISM: THE CIRCLE SQUARED (POEMS 1914-1920) Chapter
1: Women in Space and Time Part II: SONGS TO JOANNES (1917) Chapter 2: Pig
Cupid and Psyche Part III: CORPSES AND GENIUSES (POEMS 1919-1930) Chapter
3: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Artist Chapter 4: Loy's Coterie Chapter
5: Exilic Travels Part IV: COMPENSATIONS OF POVERTY Chapter 6: Urban
Bricoleur Epilogopoeia: The Lost Lunar Baedeker Found Appendices
Bibliography About the Author