SOURCE: "The Poetry of Mina Loy," in The Southern Review, Vol. 3, Summer, 1967, pp. 597-607.

In the following essay, Fields provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Loy's poetry.

Mina Loy was a contemporary of Williams and Pound, and although she was born in England, her poems are an important part of the American free verse movement. She published her first poems in Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work, and later appeared in Little Review, Others, The Dial, and other prominent American magazines. Like the work of most first-rate writers, her poems were controversial, but she was held in high regard by her contemporaries. In 1921, Pound writes to Marianne Moore: "Also, entre nooz: is there anyone in America except you, Bill and Mina Loy who can write anything of interest in verse?" Lunar Baedecker [sic], containing 31 poems, was published in 1923, and Jonathan Williams, in 1958, published Lunar Baedeker and Time-tables, unfortunately, on...