Acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange’s photography with a new work
In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s 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. Taylor’s hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange’s 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
Featured image, captioned "Bindles on shady side of Pastime Café. Siskiyou County, Tulelake, California" (August 1939), is reproduced from 'Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange.'
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Wednesday, February 12 at 6 PM, McNally Jackson presents acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor, in conversation with historian Linda Gordon and MoMA curator Sarah Meister, as they discuss the life and photographs of Dorothea Lange, as well as the new exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures—on view through May 9, 2020 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. continue to blog
This Dorothea Lange photograph, captioned "Mexican bathing facilities at Japanese ranch camp near Indio, March 3, 1935," is reproduced from Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, Tess Taylor's new collection of poetry written in response to Lange's work—on view now at MoMA. One poem ends:
FORMAT: Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $12.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $18.5 ISBN: 9781633451094 PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art, New York AVAILABLE: 2/25/2020 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. By Tess Taylor.
Acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange’s photography with a new work
In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s 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. Taylor’s hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange’s 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
