Suzanne W Churchill, Linda A Kinnahan, Susan Rosenbaum

Travels with Mina Loy

Navigating the Avant-Garde

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Artist and writer Mina Loy (1882-1966) traversed continents, participated in Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and depicted poetic and painterly vistas ranging from lunar landscapes to the gritty streets of the Bowery. Travels with Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde, a companion text to the award-winning, multi-authored web resource Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde, offers an illustrated tour of Mina Loy's long and varied career, contextualized with in-depth explorations of key places that shaped her life and work. Shedding new light on Loy's poetic responses to Italy, her theatrical explorations in New York City, and her forays into the museums of Paris and New York, the book brings in newly discovered and critically overlooked Loy works, as well as fresh timelines and surveys of the critical corpus on her creative output. This essential guidebook to Mina Loy charts her migrations across geography, movements among artistic circles and people, and transit across arts to illuminate her evolving aesthetics, politics, and artistic commitments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michigan Publishing Services
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781643151052
• ISBN-10: 1643151053
• Artikelnr.: 75921689

Autorenporträt

Suzanne W. Churchill is Professor of English at Davidson College. She is the author of The Little Magazine of Others & the Renovation of Modern American Poetry (2006); coeditor of Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches (2007); founding editor of Index of Modernist Magazines; and co-creator of the award-winning scholarly digital project, Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde (mina-loy.com). Linda Kinnahan is Emerita Professor of English at Duquesne University. She is the author of Poetics of the Feminine: Literary Tradition and Authority in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser (1994), and Lyric Interventions: Feminist Experimental Poetry and Contemporary Social Discourse (2004), Mina Loy, Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets (2017). She is editor of the Cambridge History of 20th Century American Women's Poetry (2017) and co-creator of mina-loy.com. Susan Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading (2007). She is co-creator of mina-loy.com.