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Donald Justice’s poems have been greatly admired by his fellow writers on both sides of the Atlantic. He was awarded the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for his `Selected Poems’ and in 1991 the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. `Orpheus Hesitated Beside the Black River’ adds uncollected and recent poems to the very best of a lifetime’s commitment to poetry.

Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, in 1925 and grew up there. After graduating from the University of Miami, where he had studied musical composition with Carl Ruggles, he attended the University of North Carolina, Stanford and Iowa. His first book, `The Summer Anniversaries', was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1959. It was followed by `Night Light' (1967), `Departures' (1973) and `Selected Poems' (1979) which the following year was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has also edited `The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees' (1960). He has received grants in poetry from The Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.Stanford and Iowa. His first book, `The Summer Anniversaries', was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1959. It was followed by `Night Light' (1967), `Departures' (1973) and `Selected Poems' (1979) which the following year was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has also edited `The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees' (1960). He has received grants in poetry from The Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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