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	Advanced Search > ABOUT THE AUTHOR Donald Justice 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... More > FURTHER READING Gift Shop Limited Edition Broadside: "There is a Gold Light in Certain Old Paintings" by Donald Justice Audio Archive Notable Books Academy Exclusives Video Collection Priced Under $20 Gift Ideas New & Bestselling Adopt a Poet | Add to Notebook | E-mail to Friend | Print Donald Justice CD   Price: $12.00 1982. Introduced by John Irving. In his engaging introduction to the reading, John Irving notes that "while using fully the complexities of his language, Donald Justice has always demonstrated that the highest purpose of literature is to illuminate those things which are hard, disturbing, painful, moving, and repeat themselves--not to obscure them." Most of the poems from this reading appear in Selected Poems, for which Justice received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize, including "On the Death of Friends in Childhood" and "Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy." Length: 61 min.
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