Mina Loy: Woman and Poet represents the first substantial collection of criticism devoted to this major Modernist poet, whose work is now undergoing significant reassessment and revival throughout the international literary and poetry communities. Editors Keith Tuma, of Miami University, Ohio, and Maeera Y. Shreiber, of the University of Southern California, have assembled an impressive lineup of essays about Loy’s work, a previously unpublished interview with Loy, biographical remembrances, and an annotated bibliography of works by and about Loy. Contributors include Kathleen Fraser, Barbara Guest, Marjorie Perloff, Peter Quartermain, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Carolyn Burke, and Roger Conover. In the words of the editors, this volume attempts, in part, to answer the question, “What critical posture, what methodology, would be altogether true to the spirit of a body of poems that includes much jostling among the elegaic, the satiric, and the erotic, sapphoesque density and epigrammatic abstractions?”

“Mina Loy . . . was a charter member of the generation that . . . launched the modernist revolution in poetry in the United States. Loy was too radical for Poetry’s editor Harriet Monroe, who published her poetry only in a review article, but the generation’s more innovative members admired her defiant honesty of subject and applauded the new directions she advanced for poetry.” –Virginia M. Kouidis, Dictionary of Literary Biography

“Mina Loy . . . has always been able to understand.” –Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas