She also had some conservative ideas, most likely originating from her art school education. As an art student, Loy became involved with Stephen Haweis. They moved to Paris to paint and were married there in 1903. Instead of taking her husband's name, Mina changed her last name, which was originally Lowy, to Loy, struggling with the feminist ideas of taking a man’s name instead of keeping their own, and what these things mean. When she moved to New York in 1916, she left her husband, wishing to divorce him, and her children, whom she left with a nurse. This is where she met Arthur Cravan, a self-styled Dadaist. He fled to Mexico to avoid the draft, and Loy followed him when her divorce was final. They were married in Mexico City in 1918, and lived in poverty there for many years. When she found out that she was pregnant, she traveled on a hospital ship to Buenos Aires, "where she intended to wait for Cravan, but Cravan never appeared, nor was he ever seen again.” The poem “Lunar Baedeker” is a wild poem that talks about the afterlife in a moonlike world. This is one of Loy’s more interesting and fascinating works, with various
She also had some conservative ideas, most likely originating from her art school education. As an art student, Loy became involved with Stephen Haweis. They moved to Paris to paint and were married there in 1903. Instead of taking her husband's name, Mina changed her last name, which was originally Lowy, to Loy, struggling with the feminist ideas of taking a man’s name instead of keeping their own, and what these things mean. When she moved to New York in 1916, she left her husband, wishing to divorce him, and her children, whom she left with a nurse. This is where she met Arthur Cravan, a self-styled Dadaist. He fled to Mexico to avoid the draft, and Loy followed him when her divorce was final. They were married in Mexico City in 1918, and lived in poverty there for many years. When she found out that she was pregnant, she traveled on a hospital ship to Buenos Aires, "where she intended to wait for Cravan, but Cravan never appeared, nor was he ever seen again.” The poem “Lunar Baedeker” is a wild poem that talks about the afterlife in a moonlike world. This is one of Loy’s more interesting and fascinating works, with various