Vita Nova

<p><strong>Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</strong></p><p><strong>In <em>Vita Nova</em> 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</strong></p><p>Since <em>Ararat </em>in 1990 Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is according to the poet Robert Hass her invention. <em>Vita Nova--</em>like its immediate predecessors a booklength sequence--combines the ecstatic utterance of <em>The Wild Iris</em> with the worldly dramas elaborated in <em>Meadowlands. Vita Nova </em>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.</p><p>Like late Yeats <em>Vita Nova</em> dares large statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate Glück compasses the essential human paradox. In <em>Vita Nova </em>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.</p>