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The poet and visual artist Mina Loy (1882-1966) has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism - in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp's co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes's confidante; in Mexico with her greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography brings this highly…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2021Picador · 524 pages · 9781250796134
- Other · English · 1997University of California Press · 493 pages · 9780520210899
- Other · English · 1996Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 493 pages · 9780374109646
- Other · English · 1996Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374709549
American PoetsBiographyModernism (Literature)American Women poetsLoy, Mina.Modernism (Literature) -- United States.Women poetsPoets, biography