Louise Gluck

Vita Nova

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn 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 itSince 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, resignatio… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-095795-7
EAN: 9780060957957
Produktnummer: 9553037
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 64 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D0.8 cm 96 g
Gewicht: 96

Über den Autor

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.