Maeera Shreiber: On "Love Songs" / "Songs to Joannes"
With these poems, Loy in effect diagnoses an end to love poetry in the light of historical circumstance, anticipating that poststructuralist line of inquiry which urges a rereading of "lyric" as a culturally responsive construct. Instead, her poetry constitutes a critique of the very demand that lyric expression be viewed apart from the social world. (87)