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. 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® 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. Margaret Gibson is the author of twelve collections of poems and one prose memoir. A native of Virginia, now a resident of Preston, Connecticut, she has received numerous honors, including the Lamont Selection, Connecticut Book Award, and Melville Kane Award. Her collection The Vigil was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. Used Book in Good Condition