--you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval
--all your pet illusions must be unmasked
--Mina Loy, "Feminist Manifesto," 1914
The politics and poetics of the notorious Jewish-British-turned-American poet Mina Loy dramatize the tension between personal investment and social critique, a tension that she enacted from 1913-1917 through an apparent commitment to the racist Futurist movement while also experimenting with the poetics of racial inheritance. By ...
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