Vita Nova by Louise Gluck
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
In Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart it
Since Ararat in 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to the poet, Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova--like its immediate predecessors, a booklength sequence--combines the ecstatic utterance of The Wild Iris with the worldly dramas elaborated in Meadowlands. Vita Nova is a book that exists in the long moment of spring: a book of deaths and beginnings, resignation and hope; brutal, luminous, and far-seeing.
Like late Yeats, Vita Nova dares large statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate, Glück compasses the essential human paradox. In Vita Nova, Louise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that thwart and shape it.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780880016346 |
| ISBN 10 | 0880016345 |
| Title | Vita Nova |
| Author | Louise Gluck |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | ECCO Press |
| Year published | 1999-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for United States National Book Awards: Poetry 1999 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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