Lost Writings

“An uncovered treasure for both Loy aficionados and newcomers to the oeuvre of a modernist who for too long has been buried under heaps of canonized works.”—Johanna Pelikan, Los Angeles Review of Books

“These retellings are fascinating documents, full of observations and memories charged with love, hate, fear, and at times, judgment.”—Sandeep Parmar, professor of English at the University of Liverpool, BBC Radio 3

“At once philosophical and lyrical, these novels are a revelation. Their rediscovery confirms Loy as one of the major feminist writers of her time, and a dazzling, neglected novelist of the modernist period.”—Alys Moody, author of The Art of Hunger

“Mina Loy’s writings were animated by a desire to articulate the interior of consciousness through the register of the senses. She understood perception to attach to both the known and unknown, the material world seen often as a veil across an infinite mystery. The familiar dualities of mind and matter, time and space, good and evil, find themselves, in Loy’s rich lexicon and dazzling sentences, under the most prescient and dissolving scrutiny. At once personally intimate and philosophically astute, Loy’s prose has the mesmerizing singularity and wit of her acclaimed poetry. As intoxicating as an essential oil, these unpublished works are a rare and welcome gift to our arid times. ‘The blaze exploded in me. I was riddled with splinters of delight.’”—Ann Lauterbach, author of Door