Justice, Donald Rodney

Justice, Donald Rodney
▪ 2005

      American poet (b. Aug. 12, 1925, Miami, Fla.—d. Aug. 6, 2004, Iowa City, Iowa), was admired for his mastery of a wide range of poetic forms as well as his keen sense of poetic invention and his emotional depth. He was one of the first great poets to emerge from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, which he attended in the 1950s. Justice's first published collection of poems, The Summer Anniversaries (1960), included the heralded poem “On the Death of Friends in Childhood.” The book received the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets. In 1979 Justice published Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize (1980) and contained one of his best-known works, “Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy.” He won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1991. He taught at Syracuse (N.Y.) University, the University of Iowa, the University of California, Irvine, Princeton University, and the University of Florida. He also influenced such young poets as Mark Strand and Rita Dove and the novelist John Irving. The final volume of his Collected Poems was published posthumously.

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