Monochords Brion Gysin Not merely a regional articulation

Not merely a regional articulation but in global resonance

Wayne Koestenbaum

onbeschaatste Ankeveense Plassen

Milford Graves

Monochords Brion Gysin Not merely a regional articulationYannis Ritsos with Chiara Ambrosio Returning 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 Monochords, each line an essential observation of a moment; a personal archive of time past, present and future. In London in 2020, during a period of Covid confinement,