About this title: In 1921, Ezra Pound wrote to Marianne Moore, "Is there anyone in America except you, Bill (William Carlos Williams), and Mina who can write anything of interest in verse?" Unfortunately, Mina Loy's writing, concerned with subjects like prostitution, menstruation, poverty, and suicide, was largely ignored in her time. Loy has experienced something ...
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Description: Good. Ex library copy. May have a clear plastic book cover, library stamps, catalog numbers, stickers or other markings. Good clean condition. All pages are clean. Cover/book edges have some wear. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Noonday Pr
Date Published: 1997-04-01
ISBN-13:9780374525071ISBN:0374525072
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780374525071. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780374258726ISBN:0374258724
Description: Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 0374258724. Small/very small bumps at head/foot of spine, slight lean at lower spine, a few small edge bumps and a tiny ding. DJ has tiny creases at foot of spine.; A bright, tight, unread Review Copy w/publicity material included.; #AA492. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780374525071ISBN:0374525072
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First edition. Frontispiece: Stephen Haweis photograph.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780374258726ISBN:0374258724
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Minimal library markings. Binding strong & tight, pages bright & clean. Text unmarked. Dj protected by mylar. No dog ears. We ship 6 days a week. Canadian orders ship air letter post or global priority... Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Introduction and edition copyright: Roger L. Conover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780374258726ISBN:0374258724
Description: Fine/Fine. 0374258724 Crisp, beautiful copy. No names or writing, no tears or chips, no price-clip. Dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. A compilation of the poems of Mina Loy, considered scandalous in her day even to modernists, despite kudos from her contemporaries. Her choice of topics--retardation, procreation, suicide, addiction, etc--dimmed her literary light quickly, so much so that she is only now being resurrected and appreciated. Editor, Roger L. conover, gathered poems and ... read more
Description: Good. Worn Edges, Bruised Corners, Creases on Cover, Book Slightly Bent, Used-Good. Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear. Books uploaded via isbn and stock photos may be different than actual book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780374258726ISBN:0374258724
Description: First Edition. Octavo. xx, 236pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Edited by Roger L. Conover. Image or additional images available upon request. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780374525071ISBN:0374525072
Description: First Edition. Octavo. xx, 236pp. Pictorial wrappers, Fine. // The first Noonday printing. Edited by Roger L. Conover. Image or additional images available upon request. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1997-04-08
ISBN-13:9780374525071ISBN:0374525072
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Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
"On a second go through of these poems--Joyfully cutting, strange, resistant, hermaphrodititic! A binarian's nightmare. What else from a feminist who hung out with Marinetti?
This Selected was put together to put Mina Loy back into the modernist canon and "Songs to Joannes" & almost every poem in "Corpses & Geniuses" prove she belongs there.
I mean
In one impalpable Omniprevalent Dimension
We are turned inside out Your cities lie digesting in our stomachs Street lights footle in our ocular darkness
in 1919!
The notes compiled by the ed Conover are vital for anyone interested in the landscape of Modernist poetry--for what Modernism is & what, in Loy, the Modernist center was afraid to embrace/what was excised from later definitions of."
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