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Last West

Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
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Last West features acclaimed poet Tess Taylor responding to Dorothea Lange's legacy and their mutual connection to California. The work blends Taylor's poetry with reproductions of Lange's photographs, alongside quotes from Lange's notebooks, contemporary road songs, interviews, and found texts. It explores themes of mass migration, climate change, and homelessness while highlighting the human stories at the heart of these crises.
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Acclaimed poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange's legacy and their shared interest in their home state of California.

In conjunction with the forthcoming book and exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, the acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor has written a poem that responds to Lange's legacy and their shared interest in their home state of California. Accompanied by reproductions of several of Lange's photographs and related ephemera, the poem includes quotes from Lange's notebooks, lyrics from contemporary 'roadsongs', as Taylor calls them, and bits of interviews and other found text.

Taylor explores mass migration, climate change and homelessness, and features the stories of the people impacted by these crises, in keeping with Lange's compassionate and richly textured depictions of the human experience.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633451094

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 February 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 10 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 80g

Pages: 64

About the Author

Tess Taylor is the author of three books of poetry, including Work & Days, named one of the ten best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times.

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