![]() ![]() I learned that she was famous, now, for having been forgotten. I found that Mina Loy was not only a top writer during the Modernist era (early 1900’s) but she was also an artist, mostly specializing in strange lamp shades and light fixtures, but also illustrations and found art. I had fallen into a Wikipedia black hole, which is much like a You Tube black hole you continuously and obsessively click links, delving further into a topic until you land somewhere drastically far away from where you originally began. ![]() I imagine this is how a lot of people find her now: accidentally. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams (I just love saying his name), but what else can you tell us? Who was Mina Loy?Īpril: I “accidentally” discovered Mina Loy several years ago. I know Mina Loy was a contemporary of Ezra Pound, T. Sundress: April, before we take a listen, let’s put this poem in a little context. Today April Michelle Bratten reads the first five parts of Mina Loy’s “Songs to Joannes”. ![]() Welcome to our first installment of Lyric Essentials, where writers and poets share with us a passage or poem which is “essential” to their bookshelf, and who they are, as a writer. ![]()
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