New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition (stated). Near fine in fine jacket.. First printing of this representative collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. 9'' x 6''. Original burgundy cloth. Yellow topstain. In original unclipped ($25.00) dust jacket. 176 pages. Edge sunning to boards, small pencil mark to top edge. Minor wear to jacket.

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Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, in 1925. A graduate of The University of Miami, he attended the universities of North Carolina, Stanford, and Iowa. His books include New and Selected Poems ; A Donald Justice Reader (1991); The Sunset Maker (1987), a collection of poems, stories and a memoir; Selected Poems (1979), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize; Departures (1973); Night Light (1967); and The Summer Anniversaries (1959), which received the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection. He has held teaching positions at Syracuse University, The University of California at Irvine, Princeton University, The University of Virginia, and The University of Iowa, and from 1982 until his retirement in 1992, he taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1991 and has received grants in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1997. He lives with his wife, Jean Ross, in Iowa City.

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Bookseller: Type Punch Matrix (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 47229
Title: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
Author: Justice, Donald
Book Condition: Used - Near fine in fine jacket.
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition (stated)
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679441735
ISBN 13: 9780679441731
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1995
Keywords: Poetry

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