Mina Loy wrote modernist poetry and experimental prose that confront sexuality, gender, artistic identity and the social language surrounding women. Songs to Joannes breaks romantic and erotic experience into jagged, ironic fragments, rejecting sentimental love poetry in favour of bodily and intellectual conflict. The Feminist Manifesto, though unpublished in her lifetime, is a deliberately provocative prose text attacking conventional marriage and restrictive expectations of women. Loy's poetry moves through Futurist, Dada and expatriate art circles while retaining a voice that is difficult to place inside any single movement. Her style is compressed, satirical and visually abrupt, with unconventional spacing and syntax central to the effect. Her work fits modernist poetry, feminist avant-garde writing and experimental literature, particularly for readers of H.D., Gertrude Stein and Marianne Moore interested in early twentieth-century challenges to poetic decorum. Read more Less
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