{"product_id":"collected-poems-donald-justice-9780375710544","title":"Collected Poems of Donald Justice","description":"This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as \"the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.\" In poems that embrace the past, its terrors and reconciliations, Justice has become our poet of living memory. The classic American melancholy in his titles calls forth the tenor of our collective passages: \"Bus Stop,\" \"Men at Forty,\" \"Dance Lessons of the Thirties,\" \"The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns.\" This master of classical form has found in the American scene, and in the American tongue, all those virtues of our literature and landscape sought by Emerson and Henry James. For half a century he has endeavored, with painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance, to make those local views part of the literary heritage from which he has so often taken solace, and inspiration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSchool Letting Out\u003cbr\u003e(Fourth or Fifth Grade) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe afternoons of going home from school\u003cbr\u003ePast the young fruit trees and the winter flowers.\u003cbr\u003eThe schoolyard cries fading behind you then, \u003cbr\u003eAnd small boys running to catch up, as though\u003cbr\u003eIt were an honor somehow to be near--\u003cbr\u003eAll is forgiven now, even the dogs, \u003cbr\u003eWho, straining at their tethers, used to bark, \u003cbr\u003eNot from anger but some secret joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 037571054X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375710544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.11w x 0.87d","brand":"Donald Justice","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919614968063,"sku":"9780375710544","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_00e4dc12-91ca-4b2b-b9b8-09b4387869b1.jpg?v=1680810372","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/collected-poems-donald-justice-9780375710544","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}