Loy, Mina

Loy, Mina

▪ British poet
original name  Mina Lowy 
born Dec. 27, 1882, London, Eng.
died Sept. 25, 1966, Aspen, Colo., U.S.

      modernist poet whose strongly feminist work portrayed unflinchingly the intimate aspects of female sexuality and emotional life.

      Loy began studying art in 1897 at St. John's Wood School in London. In 1899 she left England to study painting in Munich, Germany, returned to London in 1901, then traveled in 1902 to Paris, where she met and married fellow art student Stephen Haweis in 1903. She was elected to the Salon d'Automne in 1906 and moved to Florence in 1907.

      In Florence she came into contact with the Futurists (Futurism) and was taken with their theories. Gertrude Stein (Stein, Gertrude) and other expatriate artists and writers encouraged Loy's modernist tendencies. By 1913 Loy was using Futurist theories in literature to advance feminist politics in her poetry. Between 1914 and 1917 Loy's poetry was published in little magazines, where it was either admired or reviled for its direct handling of intimate issues such as childbirth, sex, and disillusionment in marriage. In 1915 she published “Love Songs” for the modernist journal Others, and in 1916 she joined the New York City avant-garde movement, winning praise from modernist contemporaries William Carlos Williams (Williams, William Carlos), Ezra Pound (Pound, Ezra), and T.S. Eliot (Eliot, T.S.). In her 1917 “Songs to Jannes” (an expansion of “Love Songs”), Loy challenged women to free themselves of emotional and physical dependence on men. That same year, she divorced her husband, and in 1918 she married Dadaist Arthur Cravan, who disappeared later that year.

      Loy returned to Paris in 1923 and published Lunar Baedeker, a collection of poetry stressing feminine experience and art for art's sake, applying collagelike typography to create “sounds.” Throughout the 1920s and '30s Loy focused on painting, other art work, and novel writing. She moved back to New York in 1936 but published little, leaving the city in 1953 to live with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado. A complete collection of her work, The Last Lunar Baedeker, appeared in 1982.

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