Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy

by Mina Loy, Karla Kelsey (Editor)

Overview

Two never-before-published novels by Mina Loy, the celebrated modernist poet, artist, and feminist

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300276121
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	05/28/2024
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mina Loy (1882-1966) was an iconoclastic poet, prose writer, and visual artist. A central figure of the European and American modernist avant-garde, she was radically creative throughout her long life. Karla Kelsey is professor of English and creative writing at Susquehanna University. Her recent books include That Transcendental Factory: A Poet's Novel for Mina Loy and the poetry volumes On Certainty and Blood Feather.

Editorial Reviews

At once philosophical and lyrical, these novels are a revelation. Their rediscovery confirms Loy as one of the major feminist writers of her time, and a dazzling, neglected novelist of the modernist period.”—Alys Moody, author of The Art of Hunger

“Mina Loy’s writings were animated by a desire to articulate the interior of consciousness through the register of the senses. She understood perception to attach to both the known and unknown, the material world seen often as a veil across an infinite mystery. The familiar dualities of mind and matter, time and space, good and evil, find themselves, in Loy’s rich lexicon and dazzling sentences, under the most prescient and dissolving scrutiny. At once personally intimate and philosophically astute, Loy’s prose has the mesmerizing singularity and wit of her acclaimed poetry. As intoxicating as an essential oil, these unpublished works are a rare and welcome gift to our arid times. ‘The blaze exploded in me. I was riddled with splinters of delight.’”—Ann Lauterbach, author of Door

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