num_pages: 64
description: 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 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. 
language: English
title: Vita Nova: Poems
titlecomplete: Vita Nova: Poems
genres: American, The United States Of America, Poetry, Womens, Female Authors, Nonfiction, Literature, Adult, Nobel Prize, Poetry Plays
ratings_count: 1409
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Ecco