Comments on: Loy, Mina https://www.porkopolis.org/pig_poet/mina-loy/ Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary. Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dan https://www.porkopolis.org/pig_poet/mina-loy/#comment-9658 Sun, 01 Mar 2015 15:09:56 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/porkotest/?page_id=1993#comment-9658 In reply to Andrei Codrescu.

Thanks for your insights, Andrei. I did not know about WCWilliams interest. That would have been an outstanding combo! A shame Pig Cupid never united them.

]]> By: Andrei Codrescu https://www.porkopolis.org/pig_poet/mina-loy/#comment-9652 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:46:18 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/porkotest/?page_id=1993#comment-9652 From one of her finest works. I’m not sure if it’s in the “Selected,” but it’s certainly in “The Lunar Baedeker,” edited by Roger Conover, published by Jonathan Williams’ Jargon Press. I taught her for years as the swift alternative between the Pound/Eliot futurist conservatory and the psychedelic radical dadaist workers of now. but even as critics essayed her work, there was never a reprint of her Baedeker for my students to buy. Roger, who also edited the “Selected,” told me that he left out the longer poems because they wouldn’t fit in the Penguin (?) book. Then why doesn’t Roger’s own MIT publish it? She’s essential to Am Po, feminists, cybernauts, astronomers, etc. Mystery! With the eye on and in things that WCWilliams, who was smitten by her, practiced, and Loy’s wit and abandon, they’d make a hell of a dancing crit on the grave of industrial (or industrious) modernism.
Andrei Codrescu

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