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 "id": "mina-loy/the-costa-san-giorgio",
 "title": "The Costa San Giorgio",
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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,
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   "https://mina-loy.com/split-texts/gender-power-in-the-street/"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "We English make a tepid blot",
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    "text": "On the messiness",
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    "text": "Of the passionate Italian life-traffic",
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    "text": "Throbbing the street up steep",
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    "text": "Up up to the porta",
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    "text": "In the stained fresco of the dragon-slayer",
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    "text": "The hips of women sway",
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    "text": "And the church hits the barracks",
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    "text": "And Mary preserve our mistresses from seeing us as we see ourselves",
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    "text": "And the angle of the sun",
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    "text": "And warms the folded hands",
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    "text": "Of a consumptive",
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    "text": "Left outside her chair is broken",
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    "text": "And she wonders how we feel",
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    "text": "For we walk very quickly",
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    "text": "The noonday cannon",
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    "text": "The smell of small cooking",
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    "text": "Of all the green shutters",
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    "text": "For there is little to do",
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    "text": "The false pillow-spreads",
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    "text": "Hugely initialed",
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    "text": "On matrimonial beds",
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    "text": "And the glint on the china virgin",
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    "text": "Having been thrown",
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