Donald Justice

Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.

Donald Rodney Justice
Born(1925-08-12)August 12, 1925
Miami, Florida, U.S.
DiedAugust 6, 2004(2004-08-06) (aged 78)
Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.
OccupationPoet
GenrePoetry, prose
Literary movementFormalism
Notable worksSelected Poems
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry (1980)

Justice got a B.A. in English literature from the University of Miami. He also later studied at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Stanford University, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught at the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, Princeton University, and the University of Florida-Gainesville.[1]

Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.[2]

Books

  • The Old Bachelor and Other Poems (1951)
  • The Summer Anniversaries (1960, 1981)
  • A Local Storm (1963)
  • Night Light (1967, 1981)
  • Sixteen Poems (1970)
  • From a Notebook (1971)
  • Departures (1973)
  • Selected Poems (1979)
  • Tremayne (1984)
  • The Sunset Maker (1987)
  • A Donald Justice Reader (1991)
  • New and Selected Poems (1995)
  • Orpheus Hesitated beside the Black River: Poems, 1952-1997 (1998)
  • Collected Poems (2004)

References

  1. "Donald Justice". Poetry Foundation. 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  2. "The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved February 24, 2023.