Collected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Donald Justice
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Depression, economic, Poetry or poets, Youth, Pianos or pianists, English language
Soon after the publication of these Collected Poems in 2004, Donald Justice died at the age of seventy-eight in Iowa City. A long life of producing exemplary poetry was thus punctuated with a summary volume of his career. A poet who takes the T. S. Eliot dictum that art should be impersonal to formal extremes, Justice led what appeared to be a self-effacingly modest academic life. Born in 1925 and raised in Miami, Florida, as an only son during the Great Depression, he graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A. in English. He then earned his master's degree at the...
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