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Vita Nova Paperback - 2001

by Louise Gluck

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

In Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glck 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 Glck 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, Glck compasses the essential human paradox. In Vita Nova, Louise Glck 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.


Here, classical myth collides with modern feeling.


  • A Modern Mythology: The timeless grief of Orpheus and the defiance of Dido are re-examined through a startlingly contemporary lens.
  • Poems of Love and Loss: A book-length sequence that follows the arc of a relationship's end and the difficult, luminous spring that follows.
  • The Paradox of Hope: Glck's unmistakable voice confronts the essential human paradox--finding a "new life" in the very moments of death and resignation.
  • Austere Beauty: Each poem is a masterclass in precision and form, where ecstatic utterance meets worldly drama in a style that is Glck's alone.

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  • Title Vita Nova
  • Author Louise Gluck
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York
  • Publication date 2001-03-06
  • ISBN 9780060957957 / 0060957956
  • Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.09 x 5.95 x 0.21 in (23.09 x 15.11 x 0.53 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Holiday: Valentine's Day
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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