Janet Lyon: On "Love Songs" / "Songs to Joannes"
[W]hat I am calling Loy's "parallax vision" is the shaping force behind her iconoclastic conceptual and visual sensibilities. . . . The notoriously difficult Love Songs puts this vision to a particular intellectual use: Loy trains it on the gaps in meaning produced by Futurism's gendered and polarized discursive field. Many of Love Songs' themes, if not its network of images, are developed through the heterogeneous vantage points of the poem's restless parallax vision.