Certain Solitudes

by Gioia, Dana; Logan, William

• ISBN13: 9781557284754
• ISBN10: 155728475X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

Offered in homage, this book contains memoirs, reviews, and assessments of Donald Justice's work from admirers and from critics and poets he has influenced. Through retrospections, letters, and essays, the editors afford readers a broad and balanced picture of this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a writer many consider to be a central conscience of the late twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xvii	(4)
A Note on the Text	xxi	(2)
Donald Justice: A Chronology	xxiii
essays	3	(100)
Of Donald Justice's Ear	3	(4)
Robert Mezey
"Avec une elegance grave et lente": The Poetry of Donald Justice	7	(12)
Bruce Bawer
Flaubert in Florida	19	(18)
Michael Ryan
Arts of Departure	37	(16)
Walter Martin
"As the Butterfly Longs for the Cocoon or the Looping Net"	53	(14)
Richard Howard
Tradition and an Individual Talent	67	(18)
Dana Gioia
The Midnight of Nostalgia	85	(18)
William Logan
memoirs	103	(68)
Donald Justice's Miami	103	(8)
Laurence Donovan
A Very Few Memories of Don Justice	111	(6)
Richard Stern
Graduate School: The Thin Young Man	117	(10)
Jean Ross
With Don and Jean Justice at Chapel Hill	127	(2)
Edgar Bowers
Justice as Classmate	129	(4)
W. D. Snodgrass
A Reminiscence	133	(4)
Mark Strand
Jump Hog or Die	137	(4)
Charles Wright
Syracuse Years: 1966-1970	141	(6)
Philip Booth
Justice and The Death of Lincoln	147	(4)
Edwin London
Iowa City, 1976	151	(4)
Jorie Graham
"It Figured": Donald Justice at the Racetrack	155	(8)
Brian McCrea
Justice in Florida	163	(8)
William Logan
interview	171	(34)
An Interview with Donald Justice	171	(34)
Dana Gioia
reviews	205	(118)
Introduction to the Critical Heritage	205	(4)
THE SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES (1960)	209	(14)
Untitled Review	209	(1)
Howard Nemerov
A Note on Donald Justice	210	(2)
Witter Bynner
From Four Poets	212	(2)
David Galler
Donald Justice	214	(9)
George P. Elliott
NIGHT LIGHT (1967)	223	(14)
Untitled Review	223	(4)
Robert Pawlowski
From Poetry Chronicle	227	(1)
William H. Pritchard
From Five Poets	228	(2)
Joel O. Conarroe
Justice	230	(4)
James McMichael
The Poems of Donald Justice	234	(3)
William Hunt
DEPARTURES (1974)	237	(24)
From Poetry by the Yard?	237	(4)
Anonymous [Irvin Ehrenpreis]
From New Work from Three Poets	241	(3)
Richard Howard
From The Importance of Being Ordinary	244	(2)
Jerome J. McGann
From Boysenberry Sherbet	246	(3)
Irvin Ehrenpreis
"My Still to Be Escaped From": The Intentions of Invisible Forms	249	(7)
Greg Simon
Departures: The Poetry of Donald Justice	256	(5)
Joseph Di Prisco
SELECTED POEMS (1979)	261	(24)
From Two Hedgehogs and a Fox	261	(5)
Vernon Young
From Anniversary Portraits	266	(4)
Charles Molesworth
The Present Bought on the Terms of the Past	270	(6)
William Logan
From Identifying Marks	276	(2)
Alan Young
From Poetry Chronicle	278	(2)
Emily Grosholz
From Men at Forty	280	(3)
Derek Mahon
From Good for Nothing?	283	(2)
Alan Hollinghurst
PLATONIC SCRIPTS (1984) From Poets' Prose	285	(4)
Richard Wertime
THE SUNSET MAKER (1987)	289	(12)
From Heroes and Villanelles	289	(2)
Edward Hirsch
From The Poetry in Things Past and Passing	291	(4)
Bruce Bawer
Review	295	(3)
Laurence Donovan
From Best Rhymes with Zest	298	(1)
John Lucas
Mythical Childhoods	299	(2)
David Hartnett
A DONALD JUSTICE READER (1992)	301	(22)
A Poet's Poet	301	(5)
Dana Gioia
Refined Craftsman	306	(6)
David Kirby
Intimations of Inadequacy	312	(11)
Robert Richman
bibliography Donald Justice: A Bibliographical Checklist	323	(8)
Michael Peich
Jeffrey Cobb
Index	331