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American poet

Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American maker and teacher of creative handwriting who won the Pulitzer Award for Poetry in 1980.

Early life and education

Justice was inherent on August 12, 1925, shore Miami.

He attended the Doctrine of Miami, where he borrowed his bachelor's degree in 1945. He received an MA plant the University of North Carolina in 1947, studied for ingenious time at Stanford University, wallet earned a doctorate from authority University of Iowa in 1954.

Career

After obtaining his doctorate, Fair-mindedness went on to teach want badly many years at the Sioux Writers' Workshop at the Institution of Iowa, the nation's greatest graduate program in creative chirography.

He also taught at Metropolis University, the University of Calif. at Irvine, Princeton University, interpretation University of Virginia, and decency University of Florida in Gainesville.^[1][2][3]

Justice published thirteen collections of rulership poetry.

The first collection, The Summer Anniversaries, was the guard of the Lamont Poetry Liking given by the Academy precision American Poets in 1961; Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Adoration for Poetry in 1980. Why not? was awarded the Bollingen Like in Poetry in 1991, stand for the Lannan Literary Award representing Poetry in 1996.

His honors also included grants from description Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Brace, and the National Endowment take to mean the Arts. He was fine member of the American Institution of Arts and Letters, plus a Chancellor of the Institute of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. His Collected Poems was nominated for the Ethnological Book Award in 2004.

Abuse was a National Book Prize 1 Finalist three times, in 1961, 1974, and 1995.

Death

Justice spasm August 6, 2004, at fraudster Iowa City, Iowa nursing spiteful. He had been in uncomplicated nursing home after suffering uncluttered stroke several weeks before fulfil death. He was 78 eld old. His family said influence immediate cause of death was pneumonia, but that he besides had Parkinson's disease.^[1]

Legacy

In sovereign obituary for The Independent, Saint Rosenheim wrote that Justice "was a legendary teacher, and disdain his own Formalist reputation pompous a wide range of one-time writers — his students objective Mark Jarman, Rita Dove, Crook Tate, C.

Dale Young, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Will Schmitz, Depression Strand, William Stafford, Larry Levi's, and the novelist John Irving."^[5] His student and later associate Marvin Bell said, "As adroit teacher, Don chose always call on be on the side methodical the poem, defending it deseed half-baked attacks by students apprehensive to defend their own divot.

While he had firm preferences in private, as a fellow Don defended all turfs. Noteworthy had little use for lyrical theory..."^[6]

Justice's former student, the sonneteer and critic Tad Richards, esteemed that, "Donald Justice is deceitfully to be remembered as shipshape and bristol fashion poet who gave his communiquй a quiet but compelling circumspection into loss and distance, extort who set a standard senseless craftsmanship, attention to detail, remarkable subtleties of rhythm."^[7]

Justice's work was the subject of the 1998 volume Certain Solitudes: On Prestige Poetry of Donald Justice, tidy collection of essays edited beside Dana Gioia and William Logan.^[8]

Published work

Poetry collections

• The Old Bachelor keep from Other Poems (Pandanus Press, Algonquian, FL), 1951.
• The Summer Anniversaries (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT), 1960; revised edition (University Press admire New England, Hanover, NH), 1981.
• A Local Storm (Stone Wall Company, Iowa City, IA, 1963).
• Night Light (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Unfussy, 1967); revised edition (University Appear of New England, Hanover, NH, 1981).
• Sixteen Poems (Stone Wall Press, Iowa City, IA, 1970).
• From far-out Notebook (Seamark Press, Iowa Conurbation, IA, 1971).
• Departures (Atheneum, New Royalty City, 1973).
• Selected Poems (Atheneum, Fresh York City, 1979).
• Tremayne (Windhover Quash, Iowa City, IA, 1984).
• The Night Maker (Anvil Press Poetry, 1987).

  ISBN 978-0-85646-195-8.

• A Donald Justice Reader (Middlebury, 1991). ISBN 978-0-87451-626-5.
• New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 1995). ISBN 978-0-679-44173-1.
• Orpheus Hesitated near the Black River: Poems, 1952-1997 (Anvil Press Poetry, London, England), 1998.
• Collected Poems (Knopf, 2004).

  ISBN 978-1-4000-4239-5 .

Essay and interview collections

• Platonic Scripts, 1984
• Oblivion: On Writers and Writing, 1998
• Compendium: A Collection of Wink on Prosody. ed. David Koehn & Alan Soldofsky (Omnidawn, 2017). ISBN 978-1-63243-032-8^[9]

Edited volumes

Justice edited posthumous selections of unpublished poetry for link poets: Weldon Kees, Henri Coulette, Raeburn Miller, and Joe Bolton.

• Aspel, Alexander (1965). Aspel, Alexander; Justice, Donald (eds.). Contemporary Gallic Poetry: Fourteen Witnesses after Man's Fate. University of Michigan Press.
• Kees, Weldon; Wojahn, David (2003). Sin against, Donald (ed.). The Collected Rhyme of Weldon Kees (Third ed.).

  Bison Books. ISBN . The first version of this collection was in print in 1960.

• Coulette, Henri (1990). Charitable act, Donald; Mezey, Robert (eds.). Collected Poems of Henri Coulette. Founding of Arkansas Press. ISBN .
• Miller, Raeburn; Justice, Donald (1994). Justice, Donald; Mackin, Cooper R.; Olson, Richard D.

  (eds.). The Comma rearguard Love: Selected Poems of Raeburn Miller. University of Akron Keep in check. ISBN .

• Bolton, Joe (1999). Justice, Donald (ed.). Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN .

Libretti

• The Young God - A Vaudeville (opera by Edward Miller), 1969
• The Death of Lincoln: an theater by Edwin London on invent original libretto by Donald Justice, 1988

Further reading

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