For a brief period, it is fair to say that Mina Loy did as much as any woman of her generation to foster the international trafficking of avant-garde life and thought in Paris-America. She introduced Stieglitz and his circle to the work of Apollinaire, imported Futurist techniques to American theater, applied methods borrowed from the revolution in the visual arts to the new poetics, and exerted an influence on the leaders of New York Dada. Her insinuation that a rampant disease called provincialism infected the American literary scene entre les deux guerres and her move from total involvement to a position of detachment earned her the indifference of her colleagues and did damage to her reputation. While most of the expatriates were just beginning their exile training, shifting their allegiance from one short-lived masthead to the next and changing headquarters as fast as Jimmie the Barman switched jobs...