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In a photograph from 1917, the avant-garde poet Mina Loy appears both enigmatic and defiant. Taken by Man Ray, the centrepiece of the portrait is Loy’s earring: a dark-room thermometer. In a typically Dadaist manner, the object detracts from the subject. The portrait mirrors the way twentieth-century critics, from Ezra Pound to Roger L. Conover,Continue reading “Partly of the Sky”