Memories of the Future: The Daybooks of Tina Modotti [Paperback]

Margaret Gibson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1986

Tina Modotti, known to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist and a photographer whose best work has a powerful dignity and integrity. She lived with Edward Weston in postrevolutionary Mexico in the 1920s. During the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, she was a nurse in Madrid and on various fronts. In Spain she knew Antonio Machado and Pablo Neruda, who wrote a poem about her after her death in Mexico in 1942. Margaret Gibson's Memories of the Future is based on Modotti's vivid but enigmatic life. Drawn from daybooks that Gibson imagines Modotti to have kept at the end of her life in Mexico City, these poems give us the reflections of a woman whose intensity and vision, evident in her own photographs, are matched by the depth and breadth of her experience and personal transformation in times of deep social and political upheaval.

Editorial Reviews

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Darkroom Nights (7 May 1941)
Dia De Los Muertos (1 November 1941)
Doctrines Of Glass And Wood (5 January 1941)
Doors, Opening As They Do
Fast Light (5 May 1941)
Fire Doesn't Die (7 March 1941)
From A Single Center (21 December 1941)
Home (4 January 1942)
In The Market
Kiss Of Our Parents
Madrid
Maria (18 November 1941)
Memories Of The Future (1 January 1941)
Outcast
Retreat To The Future
Soledad
Still Lives
Vocation (16 August 1941)
What Love Is (2 November 1941)
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (April 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807113093
• ISBN-13: 978-0807113097
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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