The Last Lunar Baedeker

Loy, Mina

Born in London in 1882, arriving in Paris in 1900, then back to London, Paris, Florence, New York, back and forth, New York, Aspen, dies 1966; two collections published in her lifetime, this 'the closest we will ever get to the Collected' (Robert Conover) and containing: 'Early Poems: 1914-1925', 'Satires: 1914-1923', 'Love Songs: 1915-1917', 'Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose: 1923-1925', 'Later Poems: 1930-1950', previously unpublished, 'Didactic, Polemical and Prescriptive Writings' (including first publication of 'Feminist Manifesto', written in Florence in 1914), 'Profiles and Interviews', and 'Ready Mades', 330+pp; edited, introduced (45pp.), chronology and textual notes by Robert L. Conover, note by Jonathan Williams, illustrated with photographs; Jargon #53, signed by Conover and Williams.