Posthumously launched as the "electric-age Blake", Mina Loy's futurist technique
s were unlike anything British critics had seen before; her subjects - sex, part
uritiion, prostitution, suicide, addiction, retardation - were considered shocki
ng even by some modernists. Updating and correcting the earlier book, this editi
on features previously unknown works by Loy rescued from Dada archives and avant
-garde magazines. All of Loy's futurist and feminist satires are included, as ar
e the poems from her Paris and New York periods, the cycle of "Love Songs", and
her portraits-in-verse which define the trajectory of her favoured company and g
eography - from fellow modernist Joyce and Brancusi in Paris in the 1920s to fel
low destitutes in New York's Lower East Side in the 1940s.
