Ann Hudson is the author of The Armillary Sphere (Ohio UP), and Glow (Next Page Press), a chapbook on radium. Her poems have appeared in Orion, Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. A senior editor for Rhino, Ann teaches at a Montessori school in Evanston, Illinois.

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About 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. The Promethean bargain at the center of these poems speaks to the tangled mesh of ambition, hope, hubris, and sometimes delusion that attends any great human venture. Of a young woman poisoned by radium, Hudson writes matter-of-factly: 'White ash seeped into the house, // even with the windows closed. / Peg's little sister dusted every day.' The wonder of these elegant poems, which have abiding psychological and political relevance, is Hudson's dazzling ability to keep them intimate and personal."
—Ralph Hamilton

"What glows here? The past that never ends. The merciless endurance of histories both public and bone-deeply personal. Bodies, in all their brutal, beautiful diminishments. Time itself glows in these brush-tip-precise couplets. Ann Hudson's poems burn patiently through lives and half-lives, singing for what dies, what survives. Unsparing, they meditate on duration, speed, efficiency, memory, time as money, the science of time. Time lost, and all that is lost to time. This affecting chapbook is aglow—haunted—by those painted watch and clock faces and all it meant to paint them. These poems are radiant. Luminous."
—Liz Ahl