Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems ART008000 Unable to keep these wonderful

Unable to keep these wonderful vignettes to herself

At less than ten inches long and weighing in at a mere one and a half pounds

Over fifty years have gone by since I left Vietnam and returned to civilian life

resilient and intelligent

Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems ART008000 Unable to keep these wonderful" 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