{"product_id":"memories-of-the-future","title":"Memories Of The Future: The Daybooks Of Tina Modotti: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eTina Modotti, known to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim?s silent film \u003ci\u003eGreed\u003c\/i\u003e, was also a dedicated political activist and photographer whose best work has a powerful dignity and integrity. She lived with Edward Weston in post-revolutionary 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Gibson?s \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf we could look into the future, would we go there?\u003cbr\u003e In the spiral of hunger?s discontent, would we go?\u003cbr\u003e Somehow we go. New societies are born\u003cbr\u003e much wider than our minds. And if for a moment\u003cbr\u003e we doubt, our bodies remember. They believe.\u003cbr\u003e We make our bodies available to death,\u003cbr\u003e and therefore live. It is the hero?s way?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eevery woman knows it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn their attention to beauty and sensuality, light and detail, these poems capture the life of the photographer. In their unhesitating confrontation with pain and loss, they reveal the harsh realities of revolutionary life. \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully unfolds the political and artistic consciousness of a woman of sensibility and strong beliefs. It is a major new effort from one of America?s best young poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46177077428401,"sku":"9780807113097","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_084e3193-394e-4b79-8635-0c2952ecd1da.jpg?v=1763074630","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/memories-of-the-future","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}