The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist.
Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism--in Florence as Gertrude Stein\'s friend and Marinetti\'s lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp\'s co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes\'s confidante; in Mexico with the greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and.
The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist