«Poet, painter, art agent and lamp designer, in her tours she met Hemingway, Cocteau, Gide, Erik Satie, Paul Valéry; she was friend with Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, Bernard Berenson, Eleonora Duse, Peggy Guggenheim; she made love to Marinetti, Papini and the boxer-poet Arthur Cravan, with whom she travelled to Mexico; she won the admiration of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams…”. This is how Carlo Anceschi describes Mina Loy in his book Poets in the Desert. Basi Bunting and Mina Loy (2005). Amazon of poetry of the 20th century, Loy was an emblem of the “dance of the intellect among words”. Pound coined a new term to name this concept: “logopeia”.
