A01=Donald Justice
Author_Donald Justice
Category=DCF
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- ISBN 9780856463860
- Dimensions: 147 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Anthony Hecht described Donald Justice as ‘among other things, the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.’ This memorial volume of his complete poetry testifies to his subtle and enduring brilliance. With painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance he endeavoured to make the local views which his titles often evoke – ‘Bus Stop’, ‘Men at Forty’, ‘Dance Lessons of the Thirties’ – part of the literary heritage from which he so often took solace and inspiration.
Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, in 1925 and grew up there. After graduating from the University of Miami, where he had studied musical composition with Carl Ruggles, he attended the University of North Carolina, Stanford and Iowa. His first book, The Summer Anniversaries, was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1959. It was followed by Night Light (1967), Departures (1973) and Selected Poems (1979) which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He also edited The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (1960). He taught at the universities of Syracuse, Florida and Iowa and after retirement lived in Iowa City, where he died in 2004.
