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Orpheus Hesitated Beside the Black River

Poems 1952-1997
  • ISBN-13: 9780856462979
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Donald Justice
  • Price: AUD $22.99
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  • Local release date: 28/11/1998
  • Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 135.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 174g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Donald Justice''s poems have received fervent acclaim from his fellow poets on both sides of the Atlantic . He has won numerous awards, including the 1979 Pulitzer fo r his Selected Poems. This book presents his most powerful r ecent work. '
Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, in 1925 and grew up there. After graduating from the University of Miami, where he had studied musical composition with Carl Ruggles, he attended the University of North Carolina, Stanford and Iowa. His first book, 'The Summer Anniversaries', was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1959. It was followed by 'Night Light' (1967), 'Departures' (1973) and 'Selected Poems' (1979) which the following year was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has also edited 'The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees' (1960). He has received grants in poetry from The Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
'Varied and marvellously accomplished... one is left in no doubt that here is a very fine poet indeed' - Derek Mahon'Donald Justice is, among other things, the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens. His brilliance is never at the service merely of flash and display; it is always subservient to experienced truth, to accuracy, to Justice, the ancient virtue as well as the personal signature. He is one of our finest poets' - Anthony Hecht
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