Vita Nova

Louise Gluck won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris" in 1993, and has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN / Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.

Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life.Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

Since Ararat in 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form of her own invention, the book-length sequence which combines worldly dramas and ecstatic utterance, a literal world and the worlds of legend and myth that impart meaning or irony to our ways of life, love and separation. Vita Nova exists in a long moment of spring, of deaths and beginnings. The verse is far-seeing, written in the elected shadow of Dante. Glück brings her subjects into sharp focus: the smallest human hopes in the light of the vast forces that shape and thwart them.