REQUIRED BOOKS

Loy:

Mina Loy: Lost Lunar Baedeker. Edited by Roger Conover. Noonday Press. 0374525072

Maeera Shreiber & Keith Tuma, editors. Mina Loy: Woman and Poet. National Poetry Foundation (Distributed by University Press of New England). 0943373433.

Carolyn Burke: Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. University of California Press.
0520210891. REQUIRED IF YOU FOCUS ON LOY FOR THE LAST PART OF
SEMESTER; OTHERWISE RECOMMENDED.

Moore:

Marianne Moore: Complete Poems. Penguin. 0140188517

Marianne Moore: Complete Prose. Penguin. 0140094369. NOTE: This book is out of print. Three copies will be at the Reserve Desk. Try to find your own copy at another library or from a
used book seller. 

Charles Molesworth: Marianne Moore: A Literary Life. Northeastern University Press.
1555531156. REQUIRED IF YOU FOCUS ON MOORE FOR THE LAST PART OF
SEMESTER; OTHERWISE RECOMMENDED.

General:

Adele Heller & Lois Rudnick: 1915: The Cultural Moment. Rutgers University Press.
0813517214. 

PHOTOCOPIED READINGS

Readings Handed Out in Class (Required)

Marjorie Perloff, “Violence and Precision: The Manifesto as Art Form.” The Futurist Moment:
Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 

Gertrude Stein, “Picasso,” excerpt from The Making of Americans, excerpts from Tender Buttons

Linda Leavell, “Portraits and Miscellanies,” Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts. Louisiana State
University Press, 1995.

Contents of “Reading Packet from the Copy Shoppe” (Required)

Loy:

Rachel Blau DuPlessis. “’Corpses of Poesy’: Some Modern Poets and Some Gender Ideologies of Lyric,” Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory, edited by Lynn Keller &

Ezra Pound, “Others” review of 1918. Reproduced from The Gender of Modernism, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 359-367 

Mina Loy, “Gertrude Stein” (essay), The Last Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy, edited by Roger
Conover. Jargon Society, 1982. 289-299

Marjorie Perloff, “The Invention of Collage,” The Futurist Moment by Marjorie Perloff.
University of Chicago Press, 1986. 42-79, 245-251

Carolyn Burke, “Without Commas: Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy,” Poetics Journal 4 (1984)
43-52

Mina Loy, “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose,” The Last Lunar Baedeker, by Mina Loy, edited by
Roger Conover. Jargon Society, 1982. 109-175

Mina Loy, “International Psycho-Democracy,” The Last Lunar Baedeker, by Mina Loy, edited by
Roger Conover. Jargon Society, 1982. 276-282.

Moore:

Linda Leavell, “Surfaces and Spatial Forms,” Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts. Louisiana
State University Press, 1995. 56-95.

T.S. Eliot. Review of Marianne Moore’s Poems and Marriage 
T.S. Eliot. Introduction to Marianne Moore’s Selected Poems 
Ezra Pound: Letter to Marianne Moore, 1916 
Ezra Pound: Doggerel letter to Marianne Moore, 1919. All reproduced from The Gender of Modernism, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 
(It’s at the beginning of the packet with readings on Loy.)

Cristanne Miller, “Inquisitive Intensity in Marianne Moore,” Marianne Moore: Questions of
Authority. Harvard University Press, 1995. 26-60.

Jeanne Heuving, “Overstatement: The Later Poems and a Diminished Vision,” Omissions Are Not
Accidents: Gender and Authority in Marianne Moore. Wayne State University, 1992.
140-164

John Slatin, “Advancing Backwards in a Circle: The Poet as (Natural) Historian,” The Savage’s
Romance. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. 205-252.

MATERIALS ON RESERVE AT THE JOHNSON CENTER

Required Reading from Moore’s Complete Prose 
“The Accented Syllable,” p 312
Review of Kora in Hell, p 56
Review of Hymen, p 79
Untitled comment, beginning “Academic feeling...”, p 182
Beginning “The younger American writers...”, p 191
Untitled comment, beginning “It is seldom that the professed grounds correspond with the real
motives of a war...”  p 176
“Emily Dickinson,” p 290
“Feeling and Precision,” p 396
“Henry James as a Characteristic American,” p 316
Durer’s Rhinoceros...” p 203
Poem-like paragraph beginning “We are told...”, p 174
Poem-like page on circus, p 220
Poem-like portrait of Dame Ellen Terry, p 208
Untitled, beginning “When an artist is willing...” on “advertising” as a kind of poetry, & a
metonymic sensibility, p 214

Recommended Reading

 Loy:

Carolyn Burke, “Getting Spliced: Modernism and Sexual Difference.” American Quarterly 39
(1987): 98-121

Carolyn Burke, “Without Commas: Gertrude Stein & Mina Loy.” Poetics Journal 4 (1984): 43-52.

Moore:

Linda Leavell, “Sojourn in the Whale,” Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts. An excellent
biographical sketch with emphasis on Moore’s relationships with visual artists, other
poets, and the New York avant-garde. If you don’t have time to read it this week, try to
get to it later.

Steven Watson, “Art I: Explosion in the Armory,” and photos on pp 114, 115, plus parodies pp
171. All in Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde.

Jeanne Heuving, “Introduction” and “An Artist in Refusing,” Omissions Are Not Accidents.

Sandra Gilbert, “Marianne Moore as Female Female Impersonator,” 
Alicia Ostriker, “Marianne Moore, the Maternal Hero, and American Women’s Poetry,” both in
Marianne Moore: The Art of a Modernist, ed. Jay Parisi. 

Joanne Felt Diehl, “Marianne Moore: Toward an Engendered Sublime,” and “The ‘Piercing,
Melting Word’: Moore’s ‘Octopus’,” both in Diehl’s Women Poets and the American
Sublime.

John Slatin, “A Reason for Living in a Town Like This,” The Savage’s Romance. Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1986. 205-252.

READINGS ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB

Kim Scarborough: The Futurism Home Page www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto.html
F.T. Marinetti, “The Futurist Manifesto” (required -- it appears here in multiple translations). Fifteen other Futurist manifestos appear on this site, including “Manifesto of the Futurist Painters” (recommended) and others discussed by Perloff.

Janet Lyon & Elizabeth Majerus: Loy page of the Modern American Poetry Association:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/loy.htm
>>Biographical note, (from Gillian Hanscombe and Virginia L. Smyers: Writing for Their
Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940 (Boston: Northeastern University
Press, 1987) pp112-128.) (recommended)
>>Mina Loy Chronology (recommended)
>>Reproductions of Loy’s art works, fewer pieces, but larger than on the other sites.
(recommended)

Kevin LaCamera & Jennifer Wolkowski: Modernism: Art Salons: Mina Loy’s Lunar Odyssey. http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/vsalu/mod/wolkowski/main.htm
>>Art Tour, repros of some of Mina Loy’s art. (required)
>>Go to Wolkowski’s paper (“The Truth Is Out There”) and follow her links to Loy’s “lunar
inspired art work.” (required)
>>First page of 1915 manuscript of “Love Songs.” (recommended)
>>Sequence of poems in the 1923 Lunar Baedecker (sic). (recommended)
>>Photo of 1894 Baedeker travel guide, Paris and Its Environs. (recommended)