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Donald Justice (born within Miami, Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He was for numerous years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the united states's leading postgraduate program within originative writing. He besides taught at Syracuse University, a University of California at Irvine, Princeton University, a University of Virginia, & a University of Florida inside Gainesville.

Justice was andy skinner of x books of poetry. A number 1 book, A Summer Anniversaries, was a winner of the Lamont Award inside 1961; Selected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. He was awarded a Bollingen Prize inside Poetry withinside 1991, & a Lannan Literary Award in 1996.

His honors as well involved grants from either a Guggenheim Foundation, a Rockefeller Foundation, and a National Endowment for the Arts. He was the member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Chancellor of the Academy of Western Poets from either 1997 to 2003. His Collected Poems was nominated for the National Book Award in 2004. Justice was too the National Book Award Finalist inside 1961, 1974, & 1995.

Major works include these volumes of poetry:

A Summer Day of remembrance, 1960 Nighttime Weak, 1967 Departures, 1973 Selected Verse form, 1979 A Sunset Maker, 1987 The Donald Justice Reader, 1991 Newly & Selected Verse form, 1995 Gathered Verse form, 2004

Essay & locate collections:

ObliviIn: On Writers & Writing, 1998 Platonic Scripts, 1984

Emended volumes:

Contemporary French Poetry (by owning Alexander Aspel), 1965 A Gathered Verse form of Weldon Kees, 1960

Libretti:

The Young God - A Music hall (opera by Edward Miller), 1969 A Demise of Lincoln: an opera by Edwin Londin on an original libretto by Donald Justice, 1988

Information: http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/donald-justice/justice-note.html "A Note on Donald Justice" (biographical sketch).

The Assassination
Text of the poem.

Donald Justice
Eleven poems.

Donald Justice Papers
University of Delaware's special collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and related documents.

Poems by Donald Justice
Text of several poems.

First Death
Text of the poem and biographical notes.

Donald Justice - A Poet's Poet
Review of A Donald Justice Reader by Dana Gioia.

Donald Justice: Extracts from a Conversation with Philip Hoy
Talks about his childhood and upbringing, about his teachers at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and about his distaste for literary theory and theorists.

Donald Justice
Biographical notes from the Academy of American Poets.