Last West

Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

Author: Tess Taylor

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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

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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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