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In July 1915, Loy began to write what would be later known as " Songs to Joannes " "( originally " Love songs "), a collection of modernist, avant-garde love poetry about her disenchantment with Giovanni Papini, another founding Futurist with whom Loy had been in a romantic relationship in Florence.

First readers of " Songs to Joannes " were shocked by Loy's forward expressions of sexuality, particularly the grotesque and uncensored depictions of erotic desire and bodily functions.