Mina Loy, a relatively unknown modernist American poet, has been
rediscovered recently by feminist and non-feminist scholars. This essay
deals with her poetry only in an indirect way, since its main purpose
is to show the linking connections between her poetic credo, deployed
in “Aphorisms on Futurism”, and her ideological standpoint regarding
women’s issues of her time, which she discusses in her “Feminist Manifesto”.
Both texts appear to be closely imbricated when we read her
main poetic compositions and hear their echoes translated into the peculiar
and original lyrical narratives she created. Intended as an introduction
to the reading of her poetic output, the following text attempts
to underline the theoretical keys necessary for the comprehension of
the poems as a reflection of her vital and aesthetic experience as woman
and artist.
