Mina loy''s technique and subjects - prostitution menstruation destitution and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger conover has resurfaced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications and has included all of the futurist and feminist satires poems from loy''s Paris and new York periods and the complete cycle of love songs as well as previously unknown texts and detailed notes.