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Read all the poems. This week we will concentrate on: Parturition, Giovanni Franchi, Italian Pictures, At the Door of the House, Three Moments in Paris, The Effectual Marriage, Sketch of a Man on a Platform, Human Cylinders, Virgin Plus Curtains Minus Dots, Lions’ Jaws, Babies in Hospital

from The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture

If you have not previously read Tender Buttons, read at least eight or ten pages of it, and skip around in the three sections. Other relevant Stein works include "Three Portraits of Painters" and "The Making of Americans." Loy read the latter in manuscript before its publication.

Fifteen Futurist manifestos appear on this site, The Futurist Home Page, edited by Kim Scarborough.
"Manifesto of the Futurist Painters” and others discussed by Perloff may be found here.

Mina Loy Chronology
Notes on Loy's life, including Gillian Hanscombe and Virginia L. Smyers, biographical note. from their Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. 112-128) and Virginia M Koudis' entry from American National Biography Online.

(If you can’t get to this bio information this week, read it by next week.)

ENG LISH 660: 002	Modernist Women Poets: Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker SPRING 2005 / SUSAN TICHY / THURSDAYS 7:20-10:00 / EAST BUILDING 134
Mina	Loy: weeks 6-9
spr ing 20 05 GEO RGE MAS ON UNI VER SITY	week 6: Futurism x Feminism This week you will be introduced to Mina Loy’s early poems & manifestos and to major influences from which she constructed her early aesthetic: Futurism & early works by Gertrude Stein. Reading is heavy this week, but don’t skimp--we will come back to these poems and these issues over the next several weeks. In class we will spend some time on what Marjorie Perloff has called “the Futurist moment” before World War I, and will begin to examine Loy’s early poems in that context. As you read, look for how Loy’s poetry both develops from and answers Futurism at stylistic and thematic levels. Think about similarities and differences between Loy’s poems and her manifestos. Like Moore's, some of Loy's poems negotiate new relationships between the eye and ear. Less rigorously formal than Moore, she builds the juncture at the level of diction and image. This makes her rhythms particularly hard to “hear” with the eye, so be sure to read the poems aloud. REQUIRED READING: Lost Lunar Baedeker: (Please also read Roger Conover’s extensive notes for each poem, which begin after the list of abbreviations on page 175.) Introduction I: Futurism X Feminism: The Circle Squared (Poems 1914-1920): Read all the poems. This week we will concentrate on: Parturition, Giovanni Franchi, Italian Pictures, At the Door of the House, Three Moments in Paris, The Effectual Marriage, Sketch of a Man on a Platform, Human Cylinders, Virgin Plus Curtains Minus Dots, Lions’ Jaws, Babies in Hospital V: Excavations & Precisions (Prose 1914-1925): Aphorisms on Futurism, Feminist Manifesto Photocopy from the bookstore: Marjorie Perloff, “Violence and Precision: The Manifesto as Art Form.” from The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture On Line Reading: Gertrude Stein. Tender Buttons on Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/140/index.htm. If you have not previously read Tender Buttons, read at least eight or ten pages of it, and skip around in the three sections. Other relevant Stein works include "Three Portraits of Painters" and "The Making of Americans." Loy read the latter in manuscript before its publication. F.T. Marinetti. “The Founding & Manifesto of Futurism.” http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/ Fifteen Futurist manifestos appear on this site, The Futurist Home Page, edited by Kim Scarborough. "Manifesto of the Futurist Painters” and others discussed by Perloff may be found here. Maurizio Scudiero. "The Italian Futurist Book." http://www.colophon.com/gallery/futurism/index.html A short, beautifully illustrated essay. You gotta see 'em to get it. Janet Lyon & Elizabeth Majerus, eds. Mina Loy page of the Modern American Poetry Web site http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/loy.htm Mina Loy Chronology Notes on Loy's life, including Gillian Hanscombe and Virginia L. Smyers, biographical note. from their Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. 112-128) and Virginia M Koudis' entry from American National Biography Online. (If you can’t get to this bio information this week, read it by next week.)