Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems - Hardcover

Adair, Virginia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679448810 ISBN 13: 9780679448815

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1996

Synopsis

An anthology of complex and powerful poems explores the author's childhood, her husband's suicide, her own blindness, the mysteries of human sensuality, her personal emotional landscape, and the rich complexities of the human condition. 10,000 first printing.

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Review:

Virginia Adair speaks directly and unaffectedly, in an accent stripped of mannerism and allusion. Ants on the Melon exhibits enough formal variety, freshness, and intelligence to confirm, at one stroke, that Ms. Adair is a poet of accomplishment and originality. --Brad Leithauser, The New York Times Book Review

Extraordinarily moving. Her voice is clear, assured, varied, and utterly her own. --A. Alvarez, The New York Review of Books

The rhyme is ingenious, the humor saucy and unsparing, and the author clearly takes a delight in perversity, in an inversion of the expected. --Alice Quinn, The New Yorker

About the Author:

Virginia Hamilton Adair was born in 1913 in New York City. Educated at Kimberly, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, and the University of Wisconsin, she taught briefly at Wisconsin, William & Mary, and Pomona College, and for many years at California Polytechnic University at Pomona. She lives in Claremont, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679448810
• ISBN 13: 9780679448815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158