{"product_id":"vita-nova-9780060957957","title":"Vita Nova","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/em\u003e, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Gl ck 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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince \u003cem\u003eArarat \u003c\/em\u003ein 1990, Louise Gl ck has been exploring a form that is, according to the poet, Robert Hass, her invention. \u003cem\u003eVita Nova--\u003c\/em\u003elike its immediate predecessors, a booklength sequence--combines the ecstatic utterance of \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/em\u003e with the worldly dramas elaborated in \u003cem\u003eMeadowlands. Vita Nova \u003c\/em\u003eis 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, \u003cem\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/em\u003e dares large statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate, Gl ck compasses the essential human paradox. In \u003cem\u003eVita Nova, \u003c\/em\u003eLouise Gl ck 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGluck, Louise:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/em\u003e in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eProofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, \u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Ages\u003c\/em\u003e. Louise Glück teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644907491602,"sku":"9780060957957","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b7d2a385-dd28-44a1-baf9-8118a20f51c9.jpg?v=1733129186","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vita-nova-9780060957957","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}