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Acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Langes photography with a new work

In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Langes winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities and Japanese American internment camps. Taylors hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Langes own journals and notebook fragments, framing the ways social and ecological injustices of the past rhyme eerily with those of the present. The result is a stunning meditation on movement, landscape and place.

Scintillatingly rendered by Taylor as conversation, meditation, road trip, and vivid documentary account, Last West tracks the not-so-distant past into the erupting present, taking on as many poetic forms as there are California topographies. -Forrest Gander, Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Author: Dorothea Lange, Tess Taylor
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781633451094
Language: English