Collected poems / Donald Justice. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Justice, Donald, 1925-2004.

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice, Donald, 1925-2004.

Justice, Donald.

Poetry--20th century.

Poetry--Collections.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 289 p. ) music ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents a collection of the selected poems of twentieth-century American poet Donald Justice depicting memories of childhood and youth, eulogies for the dead, and reflections of life's disappointments.

Contents:

Anniversaries

Song

To a ten-months' child

The poet at seven

The snowfall

Landscape with little figures

On the death of friends in childhood

The wall

A dream sestina

Sestina on six words by Weldon Kees

Here in Katmandu

The metamorphosis

Southern gothic

Sonnet to my father

Beyond the hunting woods

Tales from a family album

Thus

Variations on a theme from James

Ladies by their windows

Women in love

Love's stratagems

A map of love

Speaking of islands

Sonnet about P.

Another song

In Bertram's garden

The stray dog by the summerhouse

Anthony St. Blues

A winter ode to the old men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida

Counting the mad

On a painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane

To Satan in heaven

Two sonnets

The return of Alcestis

Autobiography

Two songs from Don Juan in hell

The metamorphoses of a vampire

Monologue in an attic

From bad dreams

The furies

Orpheus opens his morning mail

Time and the weather

To the unknown lady who wrote the letters found in the hatbox

The grandfathers

Dreams of water

Ode to a dressmaker's dummy

Memory of a porch

But that is another story

Heart

Girl sitting alone at party

Party

A local storm

Variations for two pianos

Anonymous drawing

To waken a small person

American sketches

After a phrase abandoned by Wallace Stevens

Elsewheres

Men at forty

Early poems

The thin man

The missing person

The man closing up

Hands

The evening of the mind

For the suicides of 1962

The tourist from Syracuse

Bus stop

Incident in a rose garden

In the greenroom

At a rehearsal of "Uncle Vanya"

Last days of Prospero

Memo from the desk of X

For a freshman reader

To the hawks

Poem for a survivor

Narcissus at home

ABC

Fragment : to a mirror

A letter

A dancer's life

Portraits of the sixties

Lethargy

Luxury

The telephone number of the muse

Twenty questions

On the night of the departure by bus

White notes

The confession

The success

The assassination

1971

Lorcaesques

From a notebook

Riddle

Things

An elegy is preparing itself

Variations on a text by Vallejo

Poem

Homage to the memory of Wallace Stevens

Sonatina in green

Sonatina in yellow

Three odes

Absences

Presences

Little elegy

First death

Two blues

Unflushed urinals

Sunday afternoon in Buffalo, Texas

Memories of the depression years

In the attic

Thinking about the past

Childhood

Lines at the New Year

Mule team and poster

My South

American scenes (1904-1905)

Nineteenth-century portrait

Young girls growing up (1911)

Children walking home from school through good neighborhood

October : a song

Sea wind : a song

Last evening : at the piano

Psalm and lament

In memory of my friend, the bassoonist, John Lenox

In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn

Hell

Villanelle at sundown

Nostalgia and complaint of the grandparents

Cinema and ballad of the Great Depression

Manhattan dawn (1945)

Nostalgia of the lakefronts

Tremayne

Mrs. Snow

The pupil

The piano teachers : a memoir of the thirties

After-school practice : a short story

The sunset maker

On a picture by Burchfield

The artist Orpheus

Lorca in California

A variation on Baudelaire's "La Servante au grand coeur"

Invitation to a ghost

Vague memory from childhood

The Miami of other days

On an anniversary

A man of 1794

Body and soul

On a woman of spirit who taught both piano and dance

Dance lessons of the thirties

Banjo dog variations

Pantoum of the Great Depression

Sadness

Epitaph for a pair of old shoes

"Sonya sits at the piano, practicing"

The voice of Col. von Stauffenberg ascending through the smoke and dull flames of purgatory

Ralph : a love story

Couplets concerning time

At the young composers' concert

School letting out

The small white churches of the small white towns

A chapter in the life of Mr. Kehoe, fisherman

"There is a gold light in certain old paintings."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-281) and indexes.

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