How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
Donald Justice Quotes
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
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| Birth: | 12th August, 1925 |
| Death: | 6th August, 2004 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet, Teacher |
About
Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida. He was an American poet and teacher of writing. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami in 1945. He received an M.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1947, studied for a time at Stanford University, and ultimately earned a doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1954. 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. He published thirteen collections of his poetry. The first collection, The Summer Anniversaries, was the winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize given by the Academy of American Poets in 1961; Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. He was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1991, and the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1996.
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