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DocumentAmelia Rosselli The pivotal 1976 work of one of Italy's most significant post war voices asks how poetry can document lived experience while dialoguing with the Petrarchan sonnet tradition. Long fascinated by the classical sonnet as an ideal model, Rosselli took on the Petrarchan structure of a canzonierea text in which meaning is generated by sequenceto contain the flood of 175 poems for her third collection. Speaking of Document, Rosselli said: It

She pressurizes and opens vents in the syntax

free-style French

voor het leven

where flies buzz on and off the page and the polyphony of species and elements is both dazzling subject and all-encompassing medium

Nu eens droogkomisch en prozaïsch

Ineke van Holzhaus

on first glance

from the pieces of the old one

'It starts with blueberries and it ends with quartz and heaven

that don't require their occupants to be embodied subjects

Amelia Zhou

enerzijds vertrouwt hij de traditie