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This chapter explores the different types of communities produced in Loy's works, with a focus on her theorization of modernist poetry in the essays 'Modern Poetry' (1925) and 'Gertrude Stein' (1927), the pamphlet 'Psycho-Democracy', the poem "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" (1923–25), and the sequence 'Italian Pictures' (1914), showing that Loy considered the questioning of types of collectivities and communities a fundamental element in the production and reception of modernist art and literature. Through the investigation of Loy's multilingualism, poetics, and style, the chapter argues that the insistence on the ephemeral, precarious, and shifting temporality of textual communities is the result not only of Loy's presence within mobile, transnational expatriate groups but also of a feminist stance that refuses participation in patriarchal or oppressive forms of togetherness, aiming instead to imagine possible alternatives.
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