{"product_id":"9780063117631_vita-nova","title":"Vita Nova","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike late Yeats, Vita Nova 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark collection of contemporary American poetry explores the essential human paradox through:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLyrical Poetry:\u003c\/b\u003e Experience the ecstatic utterance and stern, far-seeing voice that defined a Nobel laureate, where every line is crafted with brutal and luminous precision.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMythological Themes:\u003c\/b\u003e Journey with figures like Orpheus, Eurydice, and Dido as their ancient stories are recast into modern dramas of the heart and its desires.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Booklength Sequence:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover the unique, inventive form where individual poems build into a singular, powerful narrative arc of death, beginning, resignation, and hope.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eContemplations on Love and Loss:\u003c\/b\u003e A terrifyingly honest perspective on the smallest human hopes and the vast forces that thwart them, set in the long, transformative moment of spring.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Louise Gluck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922197762197,"sku":"9780063117631","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780063117631_928b4da7-3585-4fd4-bd2f-f6526b9c3372.jpg?v=1776889945","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780063117631_vita-nova","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}