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Loy's "Love Songs" were the favorite victim of the attacks: "Detractors shuddered at Mina Loy's subject-matter and derided her elimination of punctuation marks and the audacious spacing of her lines," not to mention her explicit examination of intercourse, orgasm, bodily function, and sexual desire.
This uncomfortable reality runs through the later, expanded version of Loy’s sequence of love songs, titled ‘Songs to Joannes’ and published in Others in 1917 (the same year that Eliot’s Prufrock debuted in book form).
The Annotated “Songs to Joannes,” by Mina Loy (1917) Songs to Joannes , by Mina Loy n., a kind of spade used in Ireland (OED 1892); alloy (obsolete, rare; 1622). Loy changed her name from 'Lowy' to 'Loy' in 1904 when she entered in the Salon d'Automne, a Parisian art exhibition (Burke 97).
Jan 9, 2022 · This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on January 9, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets. Songs to Joannes, VII - My pair of feet / Smack the flag-stones.
Inspired by “The Cantos Project” for Pound and the several annotated versions of Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” “The Annotated ‘Songs to Joannes’” offers students of Mina Loy’s work a gloss of the surgically precise language deployed in her 34-part poem sequence, “Songs to Joannes.”.
Mina Loy online is a collection of poems and essays written by Mina Loy (1882-1966). Loy was an important avant-garde poet during WWI. Her challenging and experimentally formatted work has never been properly represented online, until now.
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Songs to Joannes, V. Mina Loy. 1882 –. 1966. Midnight empties the street. Of all but us. Three. I am undecided which way back. To the left a boy.
