eBook The Armillary Sphere: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize) ePub

Ann Hudson grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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. Ann Hudson grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives in Chicago.

Series Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Ohio University Press. The Armillary Sphere. 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. Hardback, £1. 9.

The Armillary Sphere book. 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,.

American Poetry Books. The Armillary Sphere : Poems. Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. General American Poetry Books.

Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize Florida Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Stephen Kampa’s poems are witty and restless in their pursuit of an intelligent modern faith.

At first sight, these are poems lighted by curiosity and a deft music that brings the world to our door: A curlew at sunset. Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Two men in a bar. An unsettling dream. But what gives this collection its real power is the shadow of something beyond that world: of a struggle to find a shape that is also a meaning. To engage―in the words of the final poem―"the steep price of briefly becoming light. It is this reach, this rare ambition which makes this debut collection both memorable and compelling. Eavan Boland, author of A Woman Without a Country.

Information about the book, Midland: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize): the Poetry, Paperback, by Kwame . Of a father’s example and his oppression. There are different places throughout the book. They come willfully in and out of the poems: Jamaica.

Information about the book, Midland: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize): the Poetry, Paperback, by Kwame Dawes (Ohio University Press, Feb 14, 2001).

While its landscapes range from back-alley Baltimore to the Bitterroot Valley, this book remains close to unbidden beauty and its capacity to sway one’s vision of the world. Hollis Summers Poetry Prize 30 Park Place Alden Library, Suite 101 Athens, OH 45701. Online entries can be submitted at ohiouniversitypress.

Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Ohio University Press, Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, Ohio University, Alden Library 101, 30 Park Place, Athens, OH 45701.

Ann Hudson grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia.

and are never the same. These poems record and recover a rich world, one that comes alive to the focused eye, to an ear attuned to authentic sound, and a mind both spry and surprising. Gregory Orr. Hudso.is a poet of fine observational skills.