“[There is no Life or Death]” appears in Camera Work, no. 46 (1914). In Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996), biographer and critic Carolyn Burke writes, “Mabel [Dodge Luhan] thought well enough of one of Mina’s poems [. . .] to send it to Alfred Stieglitz for Camera Work: the colloquial tone and compression of ‘There is no Life or Death’ gave it an urgency that Mabel admired. Trying to impose her new perspective onto an older form, Mina had scraped it clean of sentiment. The result, something like a crossing of Emily Dickinson’s spatial sense with [Filippo Tommaso] Marinetti’s immediacy, might have been punctuated by Gertrude Stein [. . .].”