The armillary sphere : poems / Ann Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Ann, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hudson, Ann, 1970-.

Hudson, Ann.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking the warp of dream, sometimes nightmare, and weaving it with the ordinary world, the poems of The Armillary Sphere, Ann Hudson's award-winning debut collection, do not simplify the mystery but deepen it. Just as the interlocking rings of the armillary sphere of the title represent the great circles of the heavens, so do the poems herein demonstrate out of the beautiful, the extraordinary, and the cast off, a fresh scaffolding, a new way to see out from the center of our selves, a new measure of our relationship to the things of this world and the next. Chosen from hundreds of manuscripts as this year's winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, Ann Hudson's The Armillary Sphere possesses, in the words of final judge Mary Kinzie, ... a brightness of spirit and quickness of thought that are conveyed with extraordinary care as she frames moments of experience. Her style is unobtrusive - no fireworks of phrasing obscure the thing felt and seen. strong light on the moment: A fine sheen/of sweat glistens the cocktail glasses, - and Hudson studies emotions with a brave restraint that resists cliche, while deftly joining together intuitions that bring contradictory or opposing charge... Both circular and digressive, Hudson's portrayal of beings of all ages poised on their varying thresholds brings a novelist's sense of details unfolding into their future under the control of a fine poet's pure and condensed language of likeness.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

Patron Saint of August

Architect

January: Deep Freeze

Laundromat

Galileo at Santa Maria Novella

Midnight: Departure

How Glass Is Made

Shapes

Oranges

Night Run

Kite

Berlin Zoo

At the Window

Dream Theory

Grief

Ode to Julia Child

Gossip

First Day of Spring

Insomnia

The Train

Schrödinger's Cat

Saint Francis Meets Ella Fitzgerald

Work

The Daughters of Chemical Engineers Understand Chaos

Absolute Value

Postcard #8

What We Throw Away

February Morning: First Trimester

The Armillary Sphere

Charge

Eurydice

The Mobile

Galileo the Clockmaker

Equinox

After Dark

The Miner's Flowers

January 1.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8214-4223-6

OCLC:

191952872