Certain Solitudes: On the Poetry of Donald Justice

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Offered in homage to American poet Donald Justice, this book contains memoirs, reviews, and assessments of Justice's work from friends, critics, and poets. The retrospections and essays focus attention on Justice's singular talents, his poems, and the teaching skills that have made him one of the most influential poets of the last fifty years.
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Offered in homage to American poet Donald Justice, this book contains memoirs, reviews, and assessments of Justice's work from friends, critics, and poets. The retrospections and essays focus attention on Justice's singular talents, his poems, and the teaching skills that have made him one of the most influential poets of the last fifty years.
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Contains some 50 selections, including memoirs, reviews, essays, and assessments of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's by friends, critics, and fellow poets. The retrospections and essays focus attention on Justice's singular talent, poems, and teaching skills. A chronology and an interview with Justice are included. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781557284754
  • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1998
  • Pages: 368
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Note on the Text
Donald Justice: A Chronology
essays
Of Donald Justice's Ear 3
"Avec une elegance grave et lente": The Poetry of Donald Justice 7
Flaubert in Florida 19
Arts of Departure 37
"As the Butterfly Longs for the Cocoon or the Looping Net 53
Tradition and an Individual Talent 67
The Midnight of Nostalgia 85
memoirs
Donald Justice's Miami 103
A Very Few Memories of Don Justice 111
Graduate School: The Thin Young Man 117
With Don and Jean Justice at Chapel Hill 127
Justice as Classmate 129
A Reminiscence 133
Jump Hog or Die 137
Syracuse Years: 1966-1970 141
Justice and The Death of Lincoln 147
Iowa City, 1976 151
"It Figured": Donald Justice at the Racetrack 155
Justice in Florida 163
interview
An Interview with Donald Justice 171
reviews
Introduction to the Critical Heritage 205
Untitled Review 209
A Note on Donald Justice 210
From Four Poets 212
Donald Justice 214
Untitled Review 223
From Poetry Chronicle 227
From Five Poets 228
Justice 230
The Poems of Donald Justice 234
From Poetry by the Yard? 237
From New Work from Three Poets 241
From The Importance of Being Ordinary 244
From Boysenberry Sherbet 246
"My Still to Be Escaped From": The Intentions of Invisible Forms 249
Departures: The Poetry of Donald Justice 256
From Two Hedgehogs and a Fox 261
From Anniversary Portraits 266
The Present Bought on the Terms of the Past 270
From Identifying Marks 276
From Poetry Chronicle 278
From Men at Forty 280
From Good for Nothing? 283
From Poets' Prose 285
From Heroes and Villanelles 289
From The Poetry in Things Past and Passing 291
Review 295
From Best Rhymes with Zest 298
Mythical Childhoods 299
A Poet's Poet 301
Refined Craftsman 306
Intimations of Inadequacy 312
Donald Justice: A Bibliographical Checklist 323
Index 331
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    Irritating read

    I thought this book of poetry to be most annoying. It was far too confusing for most people to understand.

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