Living on Fire: A Collection of Poems

by Virginia Adair

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

Living on Fire

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

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.