Subject: Fw: Mina Loy and the QHU
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:04:01 -0000


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This query came up on another list and I thought the expertise to answer it might be here... Any suggestions welcome:

A colleague has asked me the following question to which I had no answer. Is there anyone who can help?

Mina Loy begins poem no XIX of the 'Songs to Joannes' (1917), included in Roger R. Conover (Ed),  The Lost Lunar Baedeker. Poems of Mina Loy, New York 1996, as follows:
"Nothing so conserving
As cool cleaving
Note of the Q H U
Clear carving
Breath-giving
Pollen smelling
Space"
The poem has a sexual innuendo. What remains unclear is the meaning of 'Q H U" Any suggestions?



Lesley Hall
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