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Éditions Dis Voir, 2009
64 pgs + 70 min audio CD
editions in English and French

available through the publisher

To Petrarca is a book and CD set, consisting of a sound diary, an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas' personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003. It is expanded in the accompanying book by his personal drawings, photos and correspondence. In this work, Jonas Mekas offers us images and sounds following a structure similar to his pioneering film diaries.