[.ca] Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems (ISBN 0375752293)

From Amazon.com:
There is a fairy tale quality to the appearance of this book of poems by Virginia Hamilton Adair. Although she has been publishing poetry for six decades, this is the first collection from a writer who is now in her 80s and is blind due to glaucoma. But for all that she has been through (including the suicide of her husband, historian Douglass Adair, some 30 years ago), there is a modesty and wryness to her work. From "Ants on a Melon," the poem that gives this collection its name, to "The Dark Hole," which tackles Hiroshima and the atom bomb as its subject, her poems are always finely wrought and highly original.

If Emily had a daughter....:
It's always unfair to compare one writer to another, but if you love Emily Dickinson, then Adair's book is for you. Succinct, masterful use of the language. I loved this collection. Buy it!

Good earthy, practical poetry:
I'm a literary dilletante and I admit it. I picked up this book because of its swell cover and title. Upon skimming it in the bookstore, I was hooked. Poems about life, without sappy metaphor or tricky construction. Good earthy, practical poetry. Such breadth of matter, such depth of understanding. I felt that I'd met a poet of substance. Let's leave it at this, Adair nudged me into reading more poetry, more often.

DISCOVER A MARVELOUS POET:
One of the best books of poetry I've read in years, and I go through hundreds of them to find the good ones. What a discovery! She is simply marvelous! Charles Sullivan