On top of first front end paper in tiny black ink: "For Maggie--with all old affection and alove--Larry (Donovan): Poet, artist, professor at Miami University and close friend of Donald Justice, to his former wife, Maggie, a bookseller. Slightly smaller, sturdy book, fine red-brown cloth, silver lettering bright on spine, 171 lightly browned heavy pages. Also includes card with typewritten: Donald Justice--Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1980 "Selected Poems," then signed in back ink, "Donald Justice." DJ glossy beneath mylar with light gray background and red and darker gray design, black lettering, red spine, small b/w photo of Jistice at top back left, praise on back from Howard Nemerov, Anthony Hecht, and Mark Strand. DJ has tiny light crease at top front tip and spine top edge as well as bottom back edge. Fine+ DJ/Very Fine book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

A Donald Justice Reader : Selected Poetry & Prose (Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers Ser.)

Publisher

University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

087451567X

ISBN 13

9780874515671

Binding

Cloth

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

As New

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Book by Justice, Donald

Reviews

This volume (along with one by Nancy Willard) inaugurates the "Bread Loaf Contemporaries" series, books published not for their commercial potential but for their literary merit. Pulitzer Prize-winner Justice offers a distillation of his life's work, selecting his favorite poems and augmenting them with fiction, criticism, and a memoir. Autobiographical themes dominate both the prose and poetry, and many pieces celebrate music, particularly the beautiful memoir, "Piano Lessons: Notes on a Provincial Culture." As a poet, Justice has worked in many forms. His poetry succeeds best when he transcends the everyday to hint at the mystery that is part of all our lives--"Sometimes, folding the evening paper up,/ One feels suddenly alone" and when he lets feeling and language intersect: "No, but the sheets were drenched and twisted./They were the very handkerchiefs of grief." Recommended for larger collections. See also Nancy Willard's A Nancy Willard Reader , reviewed on p. 147.--Ed.
- Doris Lynch, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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