The Armillary Sphere Winner of the 2005 Hollis Summers
Poetry Prize
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. 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
. . . 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.”
You can read more about the book and
purchase it on the Ohio University Press' website,
here.
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. 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,