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. So simple a device as
taking an intransitive verb transitively can shed 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." Insomnia If you were awake too, I'd tell you
the whole story, how I dreamt we never saw the child, how easily we
forgot. Instead I shuffle to the porch to watch traffic pass the
house and an occasional bat dive under the streetlamps, ruthless
after its dark targets.
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