Last West
Subtitle: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781633451094
Description: "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"--