The Salt Companion to Mina Loy - Salt Companions to Poetry

Commendation Quotes: This is an outstanding collection of essays, opening up the multiple facets of Mina Loy's rich and fascinating life and work in the most perceptive and illuminating ways. The essays range across issues of autobiography and subjectivity, Loy's poetics and their relationship to those of her modernist contemporaries, and the modes of thought, vision and belief that composed her writing. The discussions of Loy in this collection elucidate at every turn this most complex of writers, while keeping faith with the 'elusiveness' and 'evanescence' which was her signature. Commendation Quotes: Mina Loy's writing was for some years beyond the crust of a modernist pie and now appears at or even as the very center of a newer modernism's crumble cake. Whatever her work was and is, there is no better introduction to or discussion of it than this collection edited by Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter, which offers a belated homecoming for Loy from British-based scholars and poet-critics. Here we have Loy jostling with a host of discourses, from Futurism to Christian Science, from Jules Laforgue's irony as appropriated by Ezra Pound to Otto Weininger's sexology redeployed by Dora Marsden. Now and again Loy looks a little more "boisterous" (Peter Nicholls) and "ecstatic" (Alan Marshall) than she used to look. I am grateful for the attention to Loy's prosody, for essays on her prose and her late poetry, for Potter's essay on Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" and Hobson's on "Hot Cross Bum," for all of it. It's terrific and fun. It's true that no lepidopterist will pin this butterfly, and these writers know it, but we are the better for their trying. Publisher Marketing: Mina Loy (1882-1966) formed part of the new generation of poets who revolutionised writing in the early twentieth century. This title comprises ten essays by leading scholars and writers on the work of modernist poet Mina Loy. It is suitable for students and readers of modernism.

Contributor Bio:  Potter, Rachel After completing her Ph. D. in English at Cambridge University in 1998, Rachel Potter was a lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Southampton before becoming a lecturer in Modernist Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Contributor Bio:  Hobson, Suzanne Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture, 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2005), and essays on a range of modernist writers. She is currently working on a book called Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940 and an Introductory Guide to Modernism for Edinburgh University Press.