Publication

2020 - Museum of Modern Art

Language

English

Word Count

16,000 words, Guess

Page Count

64 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPS3620.A979 L37 2020

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"--

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