'Aphorisms of Futurism' y 'Feminist Manifesto': Conjunción estética e ideológica en la poética de Mina Loy

Abstract

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.