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.
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