1999 Modern Library Paperback Edition

Copyright © 1996 by Virginia Hamilton Adair

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This work was published in hardcover by Random House, Inc. in 1996.

Some of the poems that appear in this work were originally published in the following: Atlantic Monthly, Best Poems (Borestone), Beyond Baroque, Claremont Quarterly, College English, A Garland for John Berryman, Michigan Quarterly, Mount Holyoke Quarterly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, New York Quarterly, Poet Lore, Road Apple, Southern Humanities Review, Stonecloud, Western Humanities Review, Western Review, and Wormwood.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adair, Virginia, 1913–
Ants on the melon : a collection of poems / Virginia Hamilton
Adair. — Modern Library ed.
p.      cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-55439-0
1. Title.
PS3551.D244A82    1999
811′.54—dc21            98-52069

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