Living on Fire: A Collection of Poems
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Book Overview
Returning to the range, structure, and lyric quality of the national bestseller Ants on the Melon, Virginia Hamilton Adair's new collection of poetry, Living on Fire, establishes more firmly than ever... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0375502890
ISBN13:9780375502897
Release Date:March 2000
Publisher:Random House (NY)
Length:123 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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Living on Fire
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
A must-own volume for readers who discovered Adair either through the New Yorker or her first collection, Ants on a Mellon. The virtues of the earlier volume are well-displayed here: particularity of observation and incisiveness of language. A remarkable achievement.
Adair is Hot in Thermal, California
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
The third book by V. H. Adair is in the style of her first, 'Ants on the Melon'. The solar eclipse on the cover is evocative of the light verse of sheet music of the early 20th century , masking the alternative light and dark verse inside. The reader is drawn into the humorous couplings of guinea pigs, to be left viewing their corpses strewn along the street. The seduction continues in V. H. Adair's verse, and the reader is never disappointed.
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