Who is Donald Justice
Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.In summing up Justice's career, David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his poems weren't just good; they were great. They were great in the way that Elizabeth Bishop's poems were great, or Thom Gunn's or Philip Larkin's. They were great in the way that tells us what poetry used to be, and is, and will be."
Life and career
Justice grew up in Miami, Florida and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami in 1945. He received an MA from the Univer...
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Donald Justice Poems
- Men At Forty
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to... - On The Death Of Friends In Childhood
We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven
Nor sunning themselves among the bald of hell;
If anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight,
forming a ring, perhaps, or joining hands ... - The Tourist From Syracuse
One of those men who can be a car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin.
-- John D. MacDonald
You would not recognize me. ... - Love's Stratagems
All these maneuverings to avoid
The touching of hands,
These shifts to keep the eyes employed
On objects more or less neutral ... - Bus Stop
Lights are burning
In quiet rooms
Where lives go on
Resembling ours. ...
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Comadreverde: the justice department is asking a federal judge to hold donald trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena issued this summer ordering the former president to turn over records marked classified.
Washingtonpost: prosecutors have urged a federal judge to hold donald trump’s office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a may subpoena to return all classified documents in his possession, following months of frustration from the justice dept.
Nextgenamerica: breaking: the justice department just asked a federal judge to hold donald trump's legal team in contempt for failing to return all classified documents. finally! trump is not only a danger to our country. he’s a danger to the world.
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