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Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, in 1925 and grew up there. After graduating from the University of Miami, where he studied musical composition with Carl Ruggles, he attended the universities of North Carolina, Stanford, and Iowa. He has taught at Syracuse and Iowa as well as the University of Florida, from which he is retired. His first book of poems, The Summer Anniversary, was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1959. It was followed by Night Light (1967), Departures (1975), Selected Poems (1979), which received the Pulitzer Prize, The Sunset Maker (1987), a collection of poems, stories, and a memoir, and A Donald Justice Reader (1991). He has received grants in poetry from many sources, including The Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife, Jean Ross, live in Iowa City; they have one son, Nathaniel.
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"He is one of our finest poets," Anthony Hecht has said of Donald Justice. Winner most recently of a 1996 Lannan Literary Award, Justice has been the recipient of almost every contemporary grant and prize for poetry, from the Lamont to the Bollingen and the Pulitzer. The present volume replaces his 1980 Selected Poems and contains, in addition, poems from the last 15 years.
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