Vita Nova by Louise Gluck

Vita Nova

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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.

Book Details
Publisher:
Ecco Press
ISBN:
9780060957957
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
64
Authors:
Louise Gluck
Published Date:
2001-03-06
Language:
English
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About Louise Glück

Louise Glück (1943–2023) was born in New York City and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. Her collection The Wild Iris (Ecco, 1992) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993, and Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) won the National Book Award. Other collections include Ararat (1990), The Triumph of Achilles (1985), and Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). She was writer in residence at Yale University and a senior lecturer at Stanford. Her honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the 2001 Bollingen Prize.

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