Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems (Modern Library (Paperback))

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.         How bright and unmuddled and unaffected and unswerving these poems are. Theres such aplomb no faking such a true hard edge. They never miss.--Alice Munro.         Adair writes with a thinking hearts and a feeling minds unusual clarity. Here is a sensual wise precise amazing voice.--Sharon Olds. Virginia Hamilton Adair is Americas most widely read and respected serious poet. Ants on the Melon has already become a landmark in the nations literary history and the advent of this paperback edition guarantees that her great gifts will be recognized and appreciated by an even larger audience.