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Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems

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Title: Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems
Author: Adair, Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 9780679448815
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1996
Binding: Regular Hardback
Language: English
Publisher Description:
Already singled 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.