Mina Loy - Songs to Joannes & Other VerseForgotten Poets #7 / forgottenpoets. substack.

com'Songs to Joannes & Other Verse'[146 pages]brings together a selection of poems by London poet, later based in Paris and New York, Mina Loy, including the entire 34 song sequence, 'Songs to Joannes', and a generous selection of Loy's other verses (originally published 1914-1923), as well as selected short essays, manifestos, and aphorisms; with illustrations by Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and Clara Tice. Loy was a revolutionary poet, and a member of the Futurist and Dada groups in the mid-1910s, and a forerunner to the 'free' and 'new verse' movements of the 1920s.

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. I am the jealous store-house of candle-endsThat lit your adolescent learning—————————Behind God's eyesThere might beOther lights.

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Out of the severingOf hill from hillThe interimOf star from starThe nascentStaticOf night. .

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. -: Gertrude Stein :-CurieOf the laboratoryof vocabularyshe crushedthe tonnageof consciousnesscongealed to phrasesto extracta radium of the word.

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The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free' and 'new' verse from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in.

These are not "reprints" of previously published books, but newly crafted collections, for the serious poetry lover. .