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Author:	Donald Justice	Edition:	1
Publisher:	Alfred a Knopf Inc	ISBN-10:	1400042399
Subject:	POETRY	ISBN-13:	9781400042395
Topic:	--	Format:	Hardcover
Language:	English	Publication Year:	2004
Condition:	Good	Special Attributes:	--

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Donald Justice's COLLECTED POEMS spans the years from 1960 to shortly before his death in 2004, beginning with his first book, THE SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES. Most of Justice's poems are traditional in theme and form. He writes about memory, about his younger days and the Florida in which he grew up, about the dead and about death. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
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Length:	289 pages
Height:	9.3 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	9.3 oz.

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This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as “the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.” In poems that embrace the past, its terrors and reconciliations, Justice has become our poet of living memory. The classic American melancholy in his titles calls forth the tenor of our collective passages: “Bus Stop,” “Men at Forty,” “Dance Lessons of the Thirties,” “The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns.” This master of classical form has found in the American scene, and in the American tongue, all those virtues of our literature and landscape sought by Emerson and Henry James. For half a century he has endeavored, with painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance, to make those local views part of the literary heritage from which he has so often taken solace, and inspiration. School Letting Out (Fourth or Fifth Grade) The afternoons of going home from school Past the young fruit trees and the winter flowers. The schoolyard cries fading behind you then, And small boys running to catch up, as though It were an honor somehow to be near— All is forgiven now, even the dogs, Who, straining at their tethers, used to bark, Not from anger but some secret joy.
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"Justice concludes his collected poems with work as strong and masterly as anything he has ever written -- a meditation on a pair of old shoes, the description of a lonely fisherman dancing the lindy on a dock....This is a wonderful book, and anyone who cares for poetry will want to buy it and read it." Washington Post Book World - Michael Dirda (08/15/2004) "In the world of American poetry, Donald Justice wasn't a bit player; he was an Olivier....In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his poems weren't just good, they were great. They were great in the way that Elizabeth Bishop's poems were great, or Thom Gunn's or Philip Larkin's. They were great in the way that tells us what poetry used to be, and is, and will be." New York Times Book Review - David Orr (08/29/2004) "The publication of COLLECTED POEMS comes as a revelation, a book that compels us not only to reassess (Justice's] stature as a poet, but to mull over the related questions of what it means to be a modern, traditional, and even an original poet....I must admit that I did not fully appreciate how much fine poetry he wrote until I read this book." New York Review of Books - Charles Simic (02/24/2005)

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Collected Poems

Donald Justice

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	1400042399
Publication Date:	2004-08-17
Publisher:	Knopf

Pages:	304
Height:	1.1800 inches
Width:	6.0600 inches
Weight:	1.2500 pounds

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