Description
Poems arranged in a book-length sequence explore the deaths and beginnings of spring in an attempt to resolve an essential human paradox, in a collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris. Winner of the New Yorker Readers Award. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. Review: 'The book exists at the vanishing point of light. What's left is not darkness, but the amniotic of soul, and hence the title, Vita Nova, new life. -- Bookforum