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Vita Nova

by Louise Gluck

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Since, 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to poet Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova — like its immediate predecessors, a book-length 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 farseeing. Like late Yeats, Vita Nova dares large statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate, Glück compasses the essential human paradox, a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart it.

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"Gluck's psychic wounds will impress new readers, but it is Gluck's austere, demanding craft that makes much of this seventh collection equal the best of her previous work." Publishers Weekly

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"Abstract without being vague, personal without being maudlin, Gluck's exquisitely crafted work continues to astound." Library Journal

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"Gluck explores that terrible interval between the loss of a love and the stirrings of new life and new emotions." People Magazine
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About the Author

Louise GlÜck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is The Seven Ages. Louise GlÜck teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780880016346
Author:
Gluck, Louise
Publisher:
Ecco
Location:
Hopewell, NJ :
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
General Po75 in 4.00 oz
Copyright:
1999
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
19990818
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
64
Dimensions:
9.30x6.32x.39 in. .53 lbs.
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"Review" by , "Gluck's psychic wounds will impress new readers, but it is Gluck's austere, demanding craft that makes much of this seventh collection equal the best of her previous work."
"Review" by , "Abstract without being vague, personal without being maudlin, Gluck's exquisitely crafted work continues to astound."
"Review" by , "Gluck explores that terrible interval between the loss of a love and the stirrings of new life and new emotions."
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