Mina Loy
Mark ByronIn Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes], vol. 3, ed. Linda De Roche (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2021), pp. 739-41. ISBN: 9781440853593
Mina Loy was long considered a minor figure in Transatlantic literary modernism, but in recent decades she has taken her rightful place as a significant poet, artist and novelist, who helped develop Dada in the United States as well as supporting Surrealist and Bauhaus aesthetics. Although British by birth, and later a United States citizen, Loy spent stretches of her adult life in Paris, Florence and Mexico City, and is now an icon of transnational modernism. Recent biographies, editions of her essays and stories, and new appreciation of her work in the visual and creative arts, provide a fuller perspective on this under-rated but radically innovative avant-garde writer’s career.