CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/2/2020

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—