Justice, Donald

Justice, Donald

▪ American poet and editor
in full  Donald Rodney Justice 
born August 12, 1925, Miami, Florida, U.S.
died August 6, 2004, Iowa City, Iowa

      American poet and editor best known for finely crafted verse that frequently illuminates the pain of loss and the desolation of an unlived life.

      Educated at the University of Miami (B.A., 1945), the University of North Carolina (M.A., 1947), and the University of Iowa in Iowa City (Ph.D., 1954), Justice taught English and writing at several American universities and from 1982 through 1992 was a professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

      Justice's poetry collections include The Summer Anniversaries (1960); Night Light (1967); Departures (1973); Selected Poems (1979), which won a Pulitzer Prize; A Donald Justice Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (1991); and New and Selected Poems (1995). He also published Platonic Scripts (1984), a collection of essays, and The Sunset Maker: Poems, Stories, a Memoir (1987). Having considered becoming a composer when he was a young man, Justice retained a lifelong interest in music and wrote the libretto for The Death of Lincoln (1988), a musical work by A. Thomas Taylor. Among books Justice edited or coedited are The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (1960), Contemporary French Poetry (1965), and Syracuse Poems (1968). He also translated Eugène Guillevic's L'Homme qui se ferme (1973; The Man Closing Up) from the French.

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