Vita Nova

Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn 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 itSince 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.