The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
Mina Loy, “The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa” from Lunar Baedeker and Times-Tables (Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams Publisher, 1958). Copyright 1958 by Mina Loy. Reprinted with the permission of Roger L. Conover for the Estate of Mina Loy.
Source: Lunar Baedeker and Time Tables (The Jargon Society, 1958)
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Poet Mina Loy 1882–1966
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Animals, Trees & Flowers, Relationships, Nature, Pets
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Although born in England, Mina Loy worked as a poet and visual artist in Paris, Florence, and New York City, where her beauty and outlandish behavior shone at the center of several avant-garde circles. The eccentric vocabulary and syntax of Loy’s free-verse poems and their sardonic treatment of love can puzzle and offend, but no reader can question the work’s originality nor the poet’s fierce intelligence.
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SUBJECT Animals, Trees & Flowers, Relationships, Nature, Pets
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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