Collected Poems of Donald Justice

Collected Poems of Donald Justice

This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as â€œthe supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.â€ In poems that embrace the past, its terrors and reconciliations, Justice has become our poet of living memory. The classic American melancholy in his titles calls forth the tenor of our collective passages: â€œBus Stop,â€ â€œMen at Forty,â€ â€œDance Lessons of the Thirties,â€ â€œThe Small White Churches of the Small White Towns.â€ This master of classical form has found in the American scene, and in the American tongue, all those virtues of our literature and landscape sought by Emerson and Henry James. For half a century he has endeavored, with painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance, to make those local views part of the literary heritage from which he has so often taken solace, and inspiration.

School Letting Out
(Fourth or Fifth Grade)

The afternoons of going home from school
Past the young fruit trees and the winter flowers.
The schoolyard cries fading behind you then,
And small boys running to catch up, as though
It were an honor somehow to be nearâ€”
All is forgiven now, even the dogs,
Who, straining at their tethers, used to bark,
Not from anger but some secret joy.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375710544
Color White
ReleaseDate 2006-05-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375710544

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780375710544
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2006-05-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375710544

Collected Poems of Donald Justice

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