Winner of the Nobel Prize inLiterature

In VitaNova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poetLouise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspectivethat brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces thatshape and thwart it

Since Ararat in1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to the poet,Robert Hass, her invention. VitaNova--like its immediate predecessors, a booklengthsequence--combines the ecstatic utterance of The Wild Iris with the worldly dramaselaborated 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, andfar-seeing.

Like lateYeats, Vita Nova dareslarge statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate, Glückcompasses the essential human paradox. In Vita Nova, Louise Glück manages theapparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings intoresolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that thwart and shapeit.