Louise Gluck 
Vita Nova 

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 Araratin 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 Iriswith the worldly dramas elaborated in Meadowlands. Vita Novais 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 Novadares 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.