Born in Idaho and raised in Pennsylvania, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (Ezra Pound) is a considered the father of imagism and a foundational figure of the modernist movement in America. Obtaining his M.A. in Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania, he taught briefly and then moved to Europe.

Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.

Jun 26, 2023 · Ezra Pound soon credited her as the source of logopoeia, “poetry… akin to nothing but language which is a dance of the intelligence among words and ideas,”[3] and the New York avantgarde quickly affirmed her as the harbinger of Futurism, Dada, and unprecedented linguistic scandal. This Loy of the word is known.

As for the third, the purported adoption of an American speech idiom, the fact is, as we shall see, that Loy's language is anything but direct, colloquial, or idiomatic -- what Eliot called the "return to common speech," or Ezra Pound, "direct treatment of the thing."

'Arid clarity': Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, andJules Laforgue PETER NICHOLLS University of Sussex To review the connections between Mina Loy and Ezra Pound should be a relatively straightforward matter. There is, after all, no shortage of biographical material on Pound, and we now have Carolyn Burke's Becoming

In recent years, the neglected modernist poet Mina Loy (London, 1882; Aspen, Colorado, 1966) has been rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Her poems were praised by Ezra Pound (he coined the term “logopoeia” to describe them) and admired and eagerly read by many others such as William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane and E.E. Cummings.

Ezra Loy passed away on February 14, 2018 in Ponte Vedra, Florida. Funeral Home Services for Ezra are being provided by Crevasse's Simple Cremation - Ocala.

Throughout her life, Mina Loy was at the forefront of artistic and literary innovation. She moved between various artistic circles in Europe and the United States, engaging with key figures in the modernist movement, including Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Ezra Pound.

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