Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
The Truth Teller
By Helen Vendler
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
by Carolyn Burke
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 494 pp., $35.00
The Lost Lunar Baedeker
by Mina Loy, edited by Roger L. Conover
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 238 pp., $19.00
The curious life of the English avant-gardist Mina Loy (1882-1966) is told in detail for the first time in Carolyn Burke's faithful biography, which should help to renew interest in Loy, her poetry, and her few surviving works of art. Loy was a born writer and a born artist: the frustration of her talent—a frustration due in part to her temperament, in part to her lack of education, in part to sexism, and even in part to her beauty—makes a perplexing tale.
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