Mina Loy - Songs To Joannes & Other Verse

Loy was a revolutionary poet, and a member of the Futurist and Dada groups in the mid-1910s, and a forerunner to the 'free' and 'new verse' movements of the 1920s. . . . . . . . . . -: From: Songs To Joannes :- Out of the severing Of hill from hill The interim Of star from star The nascent Static Of night . . . . . . . . . -: Gertrude Stein :- Curie Of the laboratory of vocabulary she crushed the tonnage of consciousness congealed to phrases to extract a radium of the word . . . . . . . . . The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free' and 'new' verse from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in.