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English
Next Page Press
15 October 2021
Ann Hudson's Glow investigates the mystery of radium: the vision of Marie Curie who discovered it through labor and sheer will; its rise to fame as a health craze; the critically important work it did for the medical field; and its widespread use in luminescent paint which made watches glow in the dark. But Glow is also an investigation into what makes us tick, our curiosities, ambition, and our sense of purposeful work. These poems explore how one luminous substance-the hunt for it, the search for its secrets and powers-can be understood as a life force of its own, even as it has the power to whittle that life force to nothing. These poems show radium as destructive as it is illuminating.
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Imprint:   Next Page Press
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 3mm
Weight:   68g
ISBN:   9781736672105
ISBN 10:   173667210X
Pages:   46
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ann Hudson is the author of The Armillary Sphere, which was selected by Mary Kinzie as the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and published by Ohio University Press. A senior editor for Rhino, she teaches at a Montessori school in Evanston, Illinois.

Reviews for Glow

In crisp, compelling and often ironic lines, Ann Hudson's Glow paints Marie Curie's drive, courage and genius, as well as the troubling side-effects of her scientific work with radium. These poems capture the disturbing interface between science and industry, exploiting the cultural mystique surrounding the newly discovered element. -Ralph Hamilton Ann Hudson's Glow burns through lives and half-lives, singing for what dies, what survives. Poems meditate on speed, duration, efficiency, memory, time as money, the science of time. Haunted by those painted watch and clock faces and all it meant to paint them, these poems are radiant. Luminous. -Liz Ahl


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