Donald Justice
American poet and teacher (1925-2004)
Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
Donald Rodney Justice | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 12, 1925 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | August 6, 2004 (aged 78) Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | Poetry, prose |
| Literary movement | Formalism |
| Notable works | Selected Poems |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1980) |
Justice got a B.A. in English literature from the University of Miami. He also later studied at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Stanford University, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught at the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, Princeton University, and the University of Florida-Gainesville.[1]
Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.[2]
Books
change- The Old Bachelor and Other Poems (1951)
- The Summer Anniversaries (1960, 1981)
- A Local Storm (1963)
- Night Light (1967, 1981)
- Sixteen Poems (1970)
- From a Notebook (1971)
- Departures (1973)
- Selected Poems (1979)
- Tremayne (1984)
- The Sunset Maker (1987)
- A Donald Justice Reader (1991)
- New and Selected Poems (1995)
- Orpheus Hesitated beside the Black River: Poems, 1952-1997 (1998)
- Collected Poems (2004)
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ "Donald Justice". Poetry Foundation. 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ↑ "The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
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