ABSTRACT
Love Songs to Joannes Mina Loy's "Love Songs to Joannes" (1915-17) is remarkable in several regards. This poetry sequence, like Loy's other poetry from the period, constitutes one of the only feminist responses to the Futurist aesthetic. Along with her "Aphorisms on Futurism," which was published in Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work in January 1914, "Love Songs to Joannes" cemented Loy's reputation as an avant-garde poet. Moreover, because of its frank treatment of sex and female sexuality, this poetic sequence also gained Loy her reputation as a New Woman.
