Close Readings: Text | Interpretation

These Close Readings present the entire text of a Mina Loy poem alongside a scholarly interpretation, thanks to a custom template designed by Greg Lord. As you scroll through the close reading in the left column, the relevant portions of the poem will appear highlighted in the right column. The side-by-side presentation invites you to interact with the poem and its interpretation in one frame, so that you can draw your own conclusions about both.

“Ceiling at Dawn” (1930)

Primary Text Author
Mina Loy
Close Reading Title
Surrealist Poetics: Ceiling at Dawn (1930)
Close Reading Author
Susan Rosenbaum

“Costa Magic,” from “Italian Pictures” (1914)

Primary Text Author
Mina Loy
Close Reading Title
Gender & Power in the Street
Close Reading Author
Linda Kinnahan

“Property of Pigeons” (c. early 1940s)

Primary Text Author
Mina Loy
Close Reading Title
From "Sidewalk Surrealism: Loy's and Cornell's Aviaries"
Close Reading Author
Susan Rosenbaum

“Time-Bomb” (1946)

Primary Text Author
Mina Loy
Close Reading Title
from "Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schüler"
Close Reading Author
Cristanne Miller

“To You” (1916)

Primary Text Author
Mina Loy
Close Reading Title
from "Gender, Authority and the Speaking Subject, or: Who is Mina Loy?"
Close Reading Author
Alex Goody