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Donald Justice
Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, on August 12, 1925. A graduate of the University of Miami, he attended the universities of North Carolina, Stanford, and Iowa.
Justice’s books include Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004); New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); A Donald Justice Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (Middlebury College Press, 1991); The Sunset Maker: Poems, Stories, a Memoir (Atheneum, 1987); Selected Poems (Atheneum, 1979), for which he won the pris Prize; Departures (Atheneum, 1973); Night Light (Wesleyan University Press, 1967); and The Summer Anniversaries (Wesleyan University Press, 1960), which was the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Poetry Selection in 1959.
Justice won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1991, and received grants in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1997 to 2003, he served as a C
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Donald Justice
American poet
Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of creative writing who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
Early life and education
[edit]Justice was born on August 12, 1925, in Miami. He attended the University of Miami, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1945. He received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1947, studied for a time at Stanford University, and earned a doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1954.
Career
[edit]After obtaining his doctorate, Justice went on to teach for many years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, the nation's first graduate program in creative writing. He also taught at Syracuse University, the University of California at Irvine, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida in Gainesville.[1][2][3]
Justice published thirteen collections of his poet
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Regarded by some as ‘the poet’s poet, Pulitzer prize-winning poet Donald Justice was revered by fellow writers for his mastery of precision and his ability to make every piece of writing vital. His poems tended to be short – forty lines or less. Justice once said:
He was born in Miami, Florida on August 12th 1925. Not much is known about his early life or his parents other than that he was the only child of an itinerant carpenter and that he was the product of a Depression era poor family. Despite this he received a comprehensive education, though his time at Allapatah Elementary School was disrupted for a year by the bone disease Osteomyelitis. But he continued at high school then went on to study for almost a decade, receiving a degree from the University of North Carolina in 1945 and a doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1954. He also studied art and music and could have been successful had he chosen to make a career in either of these fields but lacked confidence in his