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Cryptonyms Under the Moon. Mina Loy: Surrealist, Feminist, Poet, Artist
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Title
Cryptonyms
Under
the
Moon
.
Mina
Loy
:
Surrealist
,
Feminist
,
Poet
,
Artist
Performer(s)
Augustine
,
Jane
Subject 1
Loy
,
Mina--Criticism
and
interpretation
.
Subject 2
Poetry
,
Modern--20th
century
.
Subject 3
Surrealism
.
Abstract
Jane
Augustine
teaches
a
class
on the
life
and
work
of
Mina
Loy
.
Themes
in
Loy’s
writing
such
as
motherhood
,
ordinary
people
,
active
protest
, and
concealed
identity
are
elaborated
on.
Augustine
discusses
Loy’s
love
affairs
and
reads
“Songs
to
Joannes”
to
exemplify
her
response
to the
anti-love
movement
of the
Futurists
.
“Hot
Cross
Bums”
and
excerpts
from
“The
Effectual
Marriage
or the
Insipid
Narrative
of
Gina
and
Miovanni”
are also
read
.
Content
0:21
Jane
Augustine
introduces
class
.
2:11
Discusses
Mina
Loy’s
autobiography
“Anglo-Mongrels
and the
Rose.”
Reads
a
passage
,
“Ova
is
standing
alone
in the
garden…”
Discusses
absence
of
egotism
in
Loy’s
writing
. Her
idea
of
‘illumination.’
6:05
Continues
reading
,
“The
garden
, the
child’s
first
place
of
purity…”
Stresses
the
image
of the
lost
,
smashed
egg
.
8:15
Loy’s
immigration
to
New
York
,
interest
in the
bums
, and her
developing
writing
techniques
.
10:50
Discusses
poems
“Chiffon
Velours”
and
“Hot
Cross
Bum.”
Reads
from
“Chiffon
Velours:”
“Trimmed
with
one
sudden
burst
of
flowery
cotton…”
12:22
Addresses
why
Mina
Loy
is
no
longer
well
known
.
More
on
Loy’s
biography
,
including
her
relationship
with
Arthur
Craven
, the
controversial
Dada
boxer
and
performer
,
Loy’s
poem
“Widow
Jazz,”
and her
later
life
. The
theme
of
motherhood
in her
writing
.
20:40
The
incorporation
of the
Dada
idea
of
‘radical
doubt.’
Her
interest
in
ordinary
people
.
Anti-patriotic
,
convention
,
church
,
sexual
repression
.
Futurism
and
freedom
within
Loy’s
poetry
.
23:20
Reads
form
Marinetti’s
manifesto
against
love
,
“Sentimental
love
is
an
invention
of the
poets…”
Loy’s
response
to the
anti-love
movement
.
24:35
Reads
from and
discusses
“Songs
to
Joannes”
to
exemplify
.
42:36
Continues
reading
“Nucleus
Nothing…”
46:32
Finishes
reading
.
Discussion
of
Loy’s
literary
devices
and
content
of the
poem
.
More
about
the
Futurists
and the
anti-love
movement
.
51:38
Reads
from
“The
Effectual
Marriage
or the
Insipid
Narrative
of
Gina
and
Miovanni.”
A
discussion
on
madness
,
Loy’s
many
lovers
, and her
involvement
in the
Surrealist
movement
and
criticism
towards
.
1:05:00
Reads
and
discusses
“Lunar
Baedeker.”
Is
Loy
a
Surrealist
?
1:16:30
Reads
and
discusses
“Der
Blinde
Junge.”
The
anti-war
theme
was
important
to the
women
Modernists
.
Loy’s
are
poems
of
active
protest
,
true
to the
Surrealist
spirit
.
Concealed
identity
as
another
theme
.
1:27:25
Reads
and
discusses
“Hot
Cross
Bums.”
1:30:15
Augustine
poses
questions
for
reflection
taken
from the
line
in
“Songs
to
Joannes:”
“…uninterpretable
cryptonyms
under
the
moon.”
1:39:59
Recording
ends
.
Type of Event
Lecture
Date Recorded
1988-07-07
File Format
.mp3
Performance Length
1:39:59
Rights Information
Copyright
release
given
to
Naropa
University
for the
purposes
of
preservation
,
marketing
and
educational
use
.
All
other
rights
reserved
to
individual
performers
.
Department
Writing
Tape Order
1 of 2
Publisher
Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type
Sound
Language
eng
File Name
88P025.mp3
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