Background
Justice, Donald Rodney was born on August 12, 1925 in Miami, Florida, United States. Son of Vascoe J. and Mary Ethel (Cook) Justice.
(The tone of much of this new collection by Donald Justice...)
The tone of much of this new collection by Donald Justice is autumnal, memorial. These tributes in the form of elegies and homages to the almost forgotten - people and places and times past - constitute an attempt, in the author's words, to "rescue what might otherwise be lost." Romantic in spirit but in style firmly realistic, they range in subject matter from Henry James' return to America in 1904, to the hoboes of the thirties, to present-day Florida. At the centre stands a brief prose memoir of early piano lessons which leads to a cluster of poems rehearsing and transforming the same material. The book comes to a close with two stories, one of which has a pendant poem dealing with the same material. Justice is one of those authors known for his formal curiosity and restlessness; in this newest work we encounter again what one of the poems calls the "love that masquerades as pure technique."
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(In OBLIVION, Donald Justice focuses his critical attentio...)
In OBLIVION, Donald Justice focuses his critical attention on 20th century literary matters. Engaging the battles of present trends and obsessions, he subtly explores the nature of obscurity, sincerity, style, memory, meter, free-verse, and music. OBLIVION closes with generous excerpts from Justice's own notebooks, providing a rare glimpse into the creative process of a writer whom many critics consider a central conscience of the late 20th century.
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Justice, Donald Rodney was born on August 12, 1925 in Miami, Florida, United States. Son of Vascoe J. and Mary Ethel (Cook) Justice.
Bachelor, University Miami, 1945. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1947. Postgraduate, Stanford University, 1949.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1954.
Instructor English, U. Miami, 1947-1951; assistant professor, Hamline U., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1956-1957; lecturer, U. Iowa, 1957-1960; assistant professor, U. Iowa, 1960-1963; associate professor, U. Iowa, 1963-1966; professor, U. Iowa, 1971-1982; professor, Syracuse University, 1966-1970; professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1982-1992.
(In OBLIVION, Donald Justice focuses his critical attentio...)
(The tone of much of this new collection by Donald Justice...)
(The tone of much of this new collection by Donald Justice...)
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Member American Academy Arts and Letters, Academy American Poets (chancellor 1997).
Married Jean Catherine Ross, August 22, 1947. 1 son, Nathaniel Ross.