First Futurist Manifesto Revisited

Published in Rett Kopi: Manifesto issue: Dokumenterer Fremtiden (2007): 152-56.

Almost a century has passed since the publication, in the Paris Figaro on 20 February 1909, of a front-page article by F. T. Marinetti called “Le Futurisme” which came to be known as the First Futurist Manifesto [Figure 1]. Famous though this manifesto quickly became, it was just as quickly reviled as a […]

Futurism for Williams Encyclopedia

The publication of F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, printed on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909, ushered in the first of the century’s great avant-garde movements. Marinetti, who was to make the manifesto an important modernist art work, propounded an aesthetic of energy, struggle, revolt, and especially the “beauty of speed.” […]

English As A Second Language

MINA LOY’S  “ANGLO-MONGRELS AND THE ROSE”

published in Mina Loy: Woman and Poet, ed. Maeera Schreiber and Keith Tuma (National Poetry Foundation, 1996), pp. 131-48. Rpt. in French translation in Après l’usure de toutes les routes: Retour sur l’épopée, Volumes 49-50 of in ‘hui, ed. Jacques Darras (Brussels, 1997): 127-145; trans. Dominque Goy-Blanquet

“These girls,” wrote Ezra Pound in the Little Review (1918), referring to […]