Further Reading
- Arnold, Elizabeth. "Mina Loy and the Futurists." Sagetrieb 8, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring-Fall 1989): 83-117. (Determines the extent to which Loy both utilizes and rejects Futurist approaches to language.)
- Burke, Carolyn. "Mina Loy's 'Love Songs' and the Limits of Imagism." San Jose Studies XIII, No. 3 (Fall 1987): 37-46. (Compares Loy's Futurist-inspired Love Songs with the Imagist and Vorticist techniques of Ezra Pound.)
- DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "'Seismic Orgasm': Sexual Intercourse, Gender Narratives, and Lyric Ideology in Mina Loy." In Studies in Historical Change, edited by Ralph Cohen, pp. 264-91. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. (Analyzes aspects of Loy's Love Songs, contending that she "produced a work whose depiction of sexuality, if not unique, is a provocation to the study of the social codes of the lyric and some historical meanings of the representation of sex.")
- Kenner, Hugh. "To Be the Brancusi of Poetry." The New York Times Book Review (16 May 1982): 7, 30. (Favorable review of The Last Lunar Baedeker.)
- Kouidis, Virginia. Mina Loy: American Modernist Poet. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980, 148 p. (Provides a comprehensive overview of Loy's career, in its feminist, modernist, and poetic contexts.)
- Morse, Samuel French. "The Rediscovery of Mina Loy and the Avant Garde." Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 2, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1961): 12-19. (Traces the anthologization of Loy's work in light of her vacillating critical reputation.)
- Schaum, Melita. "'Moon-flowers out of Muck': Mina Loy and the Female Autobiographical Epic." Massachusetts Studies in English 10, No. 4 (Fall 1986): 254-76. (Maintains that Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose "stands less as a work 'ahead of its time' than as a poetic response very much in its time, as a conscious revolution against tendencies and directions beginning to dominate the literary-cultural milieu of the 1920s.")
- Tuma, Keith. "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose." Sagetrieb II, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring-Fall 1992): 207-25. (Examines the satiric, didactic, and lyrical qualities of Loy's autobiographical poem. Additional coverage of Loy's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 28, and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 4, 54.)
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