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 "id": "mina-loy/costa-magic",
 "title": "Costa Magic",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Mina Loy",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "container": "Italian Pictures",
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  "year": 1914,
  "venue": "The Trend (New York, November 1914), as part of “Italian Pictures”",
  "note": "Not verified against the page. Laura Scuriatti’s chapter “Mina Loy’s Interrupted Communities” states that the Italian Pictures poems “were written in 1914, during Loy’s residence in Florence, and published in November of the same year in the short-lived avant-garde magazine The Trend, edited by Carl Van Vechten”, and the Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde project dates the sequence 1914 as well. No copy of that issue of The Trend is held here — it is not on the Internet Archive — so the issue, the page and whether all three parts of the sequence stood in it have not been checked. The text held here follows the 1923 Lunar Baedecker printing.",
  "uncertain": true,
  "sources": [
   "https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-30/scuriatti_loy-s-interrupted-communities.html",
   "https://mina-loy.com/split-texts/gender-power-in-the-street/"
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   "https://archive.org/details/othersanantholo01kreygoog",
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   "https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/transatlantic/1/"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "Her father",
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    "text": "Indisposed to her marriage",
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    "text": "And a rabid man at that",
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    "text": "My most sympathetic daughter⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—",
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    "text": "Make yourself a conception",
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    "text": "As large as this one",
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    "text": "Here",
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    "text": "But with yellow hair",
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    "text": "From the house",
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    "text": "Issuing Sunday dressed",
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    "text": "Combed precisely",
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    "text": "While listening up I hear my husband",
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    "text": "Mumbling Mumbling",
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    "text": "Mumbling at the window",
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    "text": "Malediction",
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    "text": "Under an hour",
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    "text": "Her hand to her side pressing",
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    "text": "Cesira fading",
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    "text": "The doctor⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠— “Phthisis”",
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    "text": "The wise woman says to take her",
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    "text": "So we following her instruction",
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    "text": "I and the neighbour",
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    "text": "The glass rattling",
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    "text": "The rain slipping",
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    "text": "I and the neighbour and her aunt",
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    "text": "Bunched together",
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    "text": "And Cesira",
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    "text": "Droops across the cab",
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    "text": "Fields and houses",
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    "text": "Pass like the pulling out",
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    "text": "Of sweetmeat ribbon",
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    "text": "From a rascal’s mouth",
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    "text": "Till",
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    "text": "Jerks back my girl on the padding",
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    "text": "And the hedges into the sky",
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    "text": "Coming to the magic tree",
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    "text": "Cesira becomes as a wild beast",
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    "text": "A tree of age",
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    "text": "“If Cesira should not become as a wild beast",
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    "text": "It is merely Phthisis”",
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    "text": "This being the wise woman’s instruction",
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    "text": "Knowing she has to die",
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    "text": "We drive home",
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    "text": "To wait",
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    "text": "She certainly does in time",
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    "text": "It is unnatural in a Father",
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    "text": "Bewitching a daughter",
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    "text": "Whose hair down covers her thighs.",
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