Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy - Hardcover

Prescott, Tara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611488125 ISBN 13: 9781611488128

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Mina Loy poet, artist, exile, and luminary was a prominent and admired figure in the art and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and New York in the early years of the twentieth century. But over time, she gradually receded from public consciousness and her poetry went out of print. As part of the movement to introduce the work of this cryptic poet to modern audiences, Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy provides new and detailed explications of Loy s most redolent poems. This book helps readers gain a better understanding of the body of Loy s work as a whole by offering compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired Loy s poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and even long-forgotten cultural venues. Helpfully keyed to the contents of Loy s Lost Lunar Baedeker, edited by Roger Conover, this book is an essential aid for new readers and scholars alike. Mina Loy forged a legacy worthy of serious consideration through a practice best understood as salvage work, of reclaiming what has been so long obscured. Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy dives deep to bring hidden treasures to the surface."

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1611488125
• ISBN 13: 9781611488128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294