num_pages: 64
description: 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.  
language: English
title: Vita Nova
titlecomplete: Vita Nova
genres: American, Female Authors, Nobel Prize, Womens, Poetry, Literature, Adult, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Poetry Plays
ratings_count: 1404
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Ecco