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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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The Museum of Modern Art, 02/09/20–05/02/20

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Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

By Tess Taylor.

Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

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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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/12/2020

Tess Taylor, Linda Gordon and Sarah Meister on Dorothea Lange at McNally Jackson, Nolita

Tess Taylor, Linda Gordon and Sarah Meister on Dorothea Lange at McNally Jackson, Nolita

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.
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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/2/2020

In 'Last West,' poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange

In 'Last West,' poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange

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:

Like crooked highrises
stacked grape crates gleam

In low sun
we keep driving:

dusk falls & they dim—
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Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures

DOROTHEA LANGE: WORDS & PICTURES

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633451049
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Pub Date: 2/25/2020
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Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

LAST WEST: ROADSONGS FOR DOROTHEA LANGE

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633451094
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Pub Date: 2/25/2020
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Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother

DOROTHEA LANGE: MIGRANT MOTHER

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633450660
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Pub Date: 3/19/2019
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