Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, a Poet Famous Late in Life, Dies:
Virginia Hamilton Adair, a California poet who published her first collection, "Ants on the Melon," when she was 83, died on Thursday in Claremont, Calif., her daughter, Katharine Adair Waugh, said. She was 91 and lived in Claremont.
Published by Random House in 1996, "Ants on the Melon" received wide attention, partly because of Ms. Adair's personal story (a retired English professor, by then blind from glaucoma, she had written poetry all her life but had published little since the 1940's) and partly for the unaffected style and universal themes of her work.
The collection sold more than 28,000 copies, which her editor, Daniel Menaker, yesterday called an "alpine" figure for a volume of poetry. [...]
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