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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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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.
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led out by The New York Times and the subject of a feature in The New Yorker, Virginia Adair has, after decades of shunning book publication, decided to collect eighty of her best poems in a volume that will surely be hailed as among the most accomplished works of our time.
Ants on the Melon includes poems that concern the author's childhood, that explore sensuality in candid terms, that starkly treat her husband's suicide and her own blindness, and that explore both her own emotional landscape and the universal mysteries of the human condition. Technically brilliant, using strict, classical prosody, yet entirely modern in sensibility, Virginia Adair's poetry will play a central role in the ongoing American poetry renaissance.
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679448810
- ISBN 13 9780679448815
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages158
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