Tara Prescott

Poetic Salvage

Reading Mina Loy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781611488142
• ISBN-10: 1611488141
• Artikelnr.: 56152922

Autorenporträt

By Tara Prescott

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