The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy

Mina Loy is a treasure waiting to be discovered by the public. In the early 1900's she was part of the Bohemian Greenwich Village art scene, with the likes of Marcell Duchamp and William Carlos Williams. As an individual she was independent, sophisticated, mythical, intelligent, and enigmatic. Her poetry was refined, Surrealist, intellectual, psuedo-scientific, futuristic and abstract. A hundred years ago, when Loy arrived in America, everyone was asking: "Who is this strange woman?" Today, people are still asking this same question. Discover her for yourself.

I came across Loy in reading about the women of Paris. I have never come back to any book more than this one. Her craft of wordsmith continues to inspire and always make me feel like i'm reading the most interesting book of poetry.

As an English major at a respected private college, I did not encounter this phenomenal woman's work. Five years later, I ask myself why. Stunning, intelligent, ground-breaking verse. Mina Loy did not pursue literary fame (though she hobnobbed with the best), and it is, perhaps for this reason that I find her work so intriguing. Unhampered by criticism, Loy's work evokes a rare liberty. It is both poised and raw.See also, BECOMING MODERN (her biography), for further adventures of this feminist, model, actress, painter, poet.