PRAISE FOR MINA LOY

“[In The Lost Lunar Baedeker,] Mina Loy’s wry, confident inquiries into the nature of men, women and sexuality are a great undiscovered treasure of modernism.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
(STARRED REVIEW)

“Her utter absence from all canonical lists is one of modern literary history’s most perplexing data.”

—HUGH KENNER,
THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Among the great modernist poets, Mina Loy was surely the greatest wit, the most sophisticated commentator on the vagaries of love.”

—MARJORIE PERLOFF

“Is there anyone in America except you, Bill [William Carlos Williams,] and Mina Loy who can write anything of interest in verse?”

—EZRA POUND, LETTER TO MARIANNE MOORE

“By divergent virtues these two women [Mina Loy and Marianne Moore] have achieved freshness of presentation, novelty, freedom, break with banality.”

—WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

“You’d know a Loy poem when you read one; you’d recognize her art work as distinctively hers. And maybe that’s the mark she would have most cared to leave on the world—literary and visual art made, unmistakably, by a true original.”

—THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN