Selected poems / Donald Justice.

Author/creator Justice, Donald
Other author Justice, Donald, 1925-2004 inscriber.
Other author Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Atheneum, 1979.
Descriptionix, 137 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Poetry.

Contents The summer anniversaries (1960). Ladies by their windows ; Women in love ; Landscape with little figures ; In Bertram's garden ; Another song ; Sonnet: the poet at seven ; Sonnet: the wall ; A winter ode to the old men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida ; The stray dog by the summerhouse ; On a painting by patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane ; Counting the mad ; Beyond the hunting woods ; Tales from a family album ; Sestina: a dream ; Sestina: here in Katmandu ; Anthony Street ; On the death of friends in childhood ; The snowfall ; A map of love -- Night light (1967). Heart ; Time and the weather ; Ode to a dressmaker's dummy ; The grandfathers ; Anonymous drawing ; Variations for two pianos ; But that is another story ; Last days of Prospero ; After a phrase abandoned by Wallace Stevens ; The suicides ; Orpheus opens his morning mail ; To the unknown lady who wrote the letters found in the hatbox ; The evening of the mind ; Dreams of water ; Early poems ; American sketches ; Memory of a porch ; Bus stop ; In the greenroom ; At a rehearsal of Uncle Vanya ; To the hawks ; The tourist from Syracuse ; The man closing up ; Men at forty ; The missing person ; Elsewheres ; Incident in a rose garden ; The thin man ; Hands ; To waken a small person -- Departures (1973). Fragment: to a mirror ; Things ; Two small vices beginning with the letter "L" ; A dancer's life ; The confession ; The success; The assassination ; Twenty questions ; Poem ; Portraits of the sixties ; Homage to the memory of Wallace Stevens ; A letter ; Three odes ; The telephone number of the muse ; White notes ; An elegy is preparing itself ; From a notebook ; Variations on a text by Vallejo ; Absences ; Presences ; Sonatina in green ; Sonatina in yellow ; Riddle -- Uncollected poems. Sonnet: an old-fashioned devil ; The return of Alcestis ; Two songs from Don Juan in hell ; The summer anniversaries ; From Bad dreams ; The furies ; Little elegy ; First death ; Two blues ; Tremayne ; Unflushed urinals ; Sunday afternoon in Buffalo, Texas ; Memories of the depression years ; In the attic ; Thinking about the past ; Childhood.
Local noteInscribed on t.p. "To Stuart [Wright] -- from Don[ald Justice]." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #176.11. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012
Awards notePulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1980.
Issued in other formOnline version: Justice, Donald Rodney, 1925-2004. Selected poems. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1979
LCCN 79052416
ISBN0689110162
ISBN9780689110160

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PS3519.U825 A17 1979 ✔ Available Request Material