About Mina Loy
Mina Loy, (born Mina Gertrude Löwy on December 27, 1882, in London; died on September 25, 1966, in Aspen, Colorado), was a British painter, art critic, poet, playwright, essayist and novelist, naturalized American in 1946. Her poetry was praised by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Loy was a regular at Gertrude Stein's salon, where she met many of the leading avant-garde artists and writers. She developed a lifelong friendship with Stein. In 1905, Loy moved to Florence, where she joined the local expat community and the Futurists, with whose leader, Filippo Marinetti, she began a relationship. She started writing what later became known as the Songs to Joannes, a modernist-avant-garde love poetry. She began publishing her poems in New York magazines and became a key figure in the group that formed around the magazine Others, which also included Man Ray and Marianne Moore.In 1914, she published what become the Feminist Manifesto. In it, she called for a “re-systematization of the woman question” and demanded that women find out what they were: “As things stand now, you have the choice between parasitism, prostitution and negation.” In 1951, she exhibited her sculptures in New York. Her second book, “Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables”, was published in 1958. She also lived in Colorado, where she continued her work as a poet and trash sculptor until her death at the age of 83 from pneumonia.
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Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
