Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Donald Justice: A Chronology
Essays
Of Donald Justice’s Ear | Robert Mezey
“Avec une élégance grave et lente”: The Poetry of Donald Justice | Bruce Bawer
Flaubert in Florida | Michael Ryan
Arts of Departure | Walter Martin
“As the Butterfly Longs for the Cocoon or the Looping Net” | Richard Howard
Tradition and an Individual Talent | Dana Gioia
The Midnight of Nostalgia | William Logan
Memoirs
Donald Justice’s Miami | Laurence Donovan
A Very Few Memories of Don Justice | Richard Stern
Graduate School: The Thin Young Man | Jean Ross
With Don and Jean Justice at Chapel Hill | Edgar Bowers
Justice as Classmate | W. D. Snodgrass
A Reminiscence | Mark Strand
Jump Hog or Die | Charles Wright
Syracuse Years: 1966–1970 | Philip Booth
Justice and The Death of Lincoln | Edwin London
Iowa City, 1976 | Jorie Graham
“It Figured”: Donald Justice at the Racetrack | Brian McCrea
Justice in Florida | William Logan
Interview
An Interview with Donald Justice | Dana Gioia
Reviews
Introduction to the Critical Heritage
Untitled Review | Howard Nemerov
A Note on Donald Justice | Witter Bynner
From Four Poets | David Galler
Donald Justice | George P. Elliott
Untitled Review | Robert Pawlowski
From Poetry Chronicle | William H. Pritchard
From Five Poets | Joel O. Conarroe
Justice | James McMichael
The Poems of Donald Justice | William Hunt
From Poetry by the Yard? | Anonymous [Irvin Ehrenpreis]
From New Work from Three Poets | Richard Howard
FromThe Importance of Being Ordinary | Jerome J. McGann
From Boysenberry Sherbet | Irvin Ehrenpreis
“My Still to Be Escaped From”: The Intentions of Invisible Forms | Greg Simon
Departures: The Poetry of Donald Justice | Joseph Di Prisco
From Two Hedgehogs and a Fox | Vernon Young
From Anniversary Portraits | Charles Molesworth
The Present Bought on the Terms of the Past | William Logan
From Identifying Marks | Alan Young
From Poetry Chronicle | Emily Grosholz
From Men at Forty | Derek Mahon
From Good for Nothing? | Alan Hollinghurst
From Poets’ Prose | Richard Wertime
From Heroes and Villanelles | Edward Hirsch
From The Poetry in Things Past and Passing | Bruce Bawer
Review | Laurence Donovan
From Best Rhymes with Zest | John Lucas
Mythical Childhoods | David Hartnett
A Poet’s Poet | Dana Gioia
Refined Craftsman | David Kirby
Intimations of Inadequacy | Robert Richman
Bibliography
Donald Justice: A Bibliographical Checklist | Michael Peich and Jeffrey Cobb
Index
