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,
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.