{"product_id":"9781913513429-monochords","title":"Monochords","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGreek poet Yannis Ritsos' remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems, composed in 1979, with linocut responses by artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio, created in 2020; each line and image an essential observation of a moment, a personal archive of time past, present and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning to the island of Samos during the summer of 1979, where he had spent long periods of exile throughout his life, Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems, written at a rate of about 10 a day: the \u003ci\u003eMonochords\u003c\/i\u003e, each line an essential observation of a moment; a personal archive of time past, present and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn London in 2020, during a period of Covid confinement, artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio began responding to Ritsos’ words through linocut images: an experiment in entering the space opened by each poem, rendering it in line and shape; a daily ritual that accompanied her along a strange year of exile from life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Yannis Ritsos composed monochorda, single-line poems, as antidotes to the concocted complexities silencing truth. Chiara Ambrosio’s linocuts, beautifully intermingled with Ritsos' words, add their own ascetic harmony to his monochorda thus boosting their pertinence to our dissonant age.' – \u003cstrong\u003eYanis Varoufakis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This meditative book is an inspiring act of repair twice over, for ordeals of seclusion, threat, and tedium past and present.' – \u003cstrong\u003eMarina Warner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A major poem by one of the greatest European poets of the past 100 years, in an exemplary translation \u0026amp; with a further superb expansion into a year's journey of linocuts make this book a vessel that holds urgently needed communal life-force.' - \u003cb\u003eStephen Watts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40821016068193,"sku":"9781913513429","price":14.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34964602_6ada9add-5d57-40d1-ab9f-c690ad07f799.jpg?v=1750931016","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913513429-monochords","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}