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Born in 1925 / Died in August 6, 2004 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • The Old Bachelor and Other Poems, Pandanus Press (Miami, FL), 1951.
  • The Summer Anniversaries, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1960, revised edition, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1981.
  • A Local Storm, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1963.
  • Night Light, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1967, revised edition, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1981.
  • (With Tom McAfee, Donald Drummond, and R. P. Dickey) Four Poets, Central College of Pella (Pella, IA), 1968.
  • Sixteen Poems, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1970.
  • From a Notebook, Seamark Press (Iowa City, IA), 1971.
  • Departures, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1973.
  • Selected Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Tremayne, Windhover Press (Iowa City, IA), 1984.
  • New and Selected Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Poems to Go, Knopf (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Orpheus Hesitated beside the Black River: Poems, 1952-1997, Anvil Press Poetry (London, England), 1998.
  • Collected Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.
EDITOR
  • The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1960, revised edition, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1992.
  • (With Alexander Aspel) Contemporary French Poetry: Fourteen Witnesses of Man's Fate, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1965.
  • Syracuse Poems, Department of English, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY), 1968.
  • (With Robert Mezey, and coauthor of introduction) The Collected Poems of Henri Coulette, University of Arkansas Press (Fayetteville, AR), 1990.
  • (With Cooper R. Mackin and Richard D. Olson, and author of introduction) The Comma after Love: Selected Poems of Raeburn Miller, University of Akron Press (Akron, OH), 1994.
  • Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Collected Poems, 1982-1990, University of Arkansas Press (Fayetteville, AR), 1999.
OTHER
  • (Translator) Eugène Guillevic, L'Homme qui se ferme/The Man Closing Up, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1973.
  • Platonic Scripts (essays), University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1984.
  • The Sunset Maker: Poems/ Stories/A Memoir, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1987.
  • The Death of Lincoln: A Documentary Opera (libretto), A. Thomas Taylor, 1988.
  • A Donald Justice Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1991.
  • Oblivion: On Writers and Writing, Story Line Press (Ashland, OR), 1998.
Author of librettos and one-act plays. Contributor to books, including On Creative Writing, edited by Paul Engle, Dutton (New York, NY), 1964; New Poets of England and America; Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Conrad Aiken; Contemporary American Poetry, edited by A. J. Poulin; The Direction of Poetry, edited by Robert Richman; and Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Donald Hall. Contributor of essays and short stories to literary journals, including Poetry, Antaeus, New Yorker, and New Criterion. Poetry recordings include Childhood and Other Poems, Watershed, 1983; selections recorded by Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1973, 1992. A collection of Justice's manuscripts is housed at the University of Delaware Library, Dover.