Review of Lara Rutter’s poetry collection “amoretten in netzen”

Love poems cannot be completely reinvented, but they can be constantly transformed and transformed. Lara Rutter’s lyrical debut “amoretten in netzen” creates stunningly beautiful transformations in the love poem. Most striking is in its opening stanza, which sets a distinctive frame with its first line: “There are clicks, here, on the shard, the catch goes into the net. Or the banished / crazy.” This verse draws its poetic energy from individual words that have become contradictory through digital culture: “click” may once have referred to a noise. Now it also describes the everyday finger technology through which we tangibly connect the analogue with the digital and keep entire industries running. Or in breathing. Anyone caught in the net is not necessarily entangled in fishing gear or spiders’ habitat. Rutter’s screen, by contrast, represents nothing more than a “crumb” (rectangle) on which the fate of our lives and loves is decided, based on the model of the ancient Greek ostraca. You'll immediately see how the navigation system rotates a grid that forms a coordinate system on the landscape. Or has it gone crazy because it can't process the catch properly?