{"product_id":"vita-nova-isbn-9780060957957","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\u003eHere, classical myth collides with modern feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Modern Mythology:\u003c\/b\u003e The timeless grief of Orpheus and the defiance of Dido are re-examined through a startlingly contemporary lens.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePoems of Love and Loss:\u003c\/b\u003e A book-length sequence that follows the arc of a relationship’s end and the difficult, luminous spring that follows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Paradox of Hope:\u003c\/b\u003e Glück’s unmistakable voice confronts the essential human paradox—finding a “new life” in the very moments of death and resignation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAustere Beauty:\u003c\/b\u003e Each poem is a masterclass in precision and form, where ecstatic utterance meets worldly drama in a style that is Glück’s alone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"The book exists at the vanishing point of light. What's left is not darkness, but the amniotic of soul, and hence the title, \u003cem\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/em\u003e, new life.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookForum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887505010917,"sku":"NP9780060957957","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060957957.jpg?v=1730226249","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/vita-nova-isbn-9780060957957","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}