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This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems 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.

School Letting Out
(Fourth or Fifth Grade)

The afternoons of going home from school
Past the young fruit trees and the winter flowers.
The schoolyard cries fading behind you then,
And small boys running to catch up, as though
It were an honor somehow to be near—
All is forgiven now, even the dogs,
Who, straining at their tethers, used to bark,
Not from anger but some secret joy.


From the Hardcover edition. ... Read more

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Collected Poems by Donal Justice
This collection is an excellent book to add to your library.It has a large collaboration of Donald Justice's works.The only thing that was slightly disappointing, but was to be expected is the fact that some of the books were excerpts.Overall an enjoyable read and a wise purchase for both poetry and Donald Justice fans.

Extremely Highly Recommended
I picked up this book on a trip to Boston with some friends.I was standing in the poetry section with another guy just browsing and he saw the book and told me I must read Justice.I highly respect my friend's literary taste, so I put down the other book of poetry I was looking at and decided to purchase Justice, based solely on that recommendation.I must say, I was not disappointed.I normally gravitate toward free verse for its accessibility and whimsy and away from more technical poetry but I found in Justice a poetry that was both highly technical (some of his most interesting poems are villanelles) but retained a sense of capriciousness while still remaining accessible to almost any reader.In my opinion, he blends the technical savvy of Wallace Stevens with the unique eye and open language of William Carlos Williams.

Justice was a poet in addition to being both a painter and a musician, so his work is rife with references to all three art forms.Yet his work is still fresh and vibrant to a reader who is not well-versed in all those forms.His is not a poetry of exclusion but one of inclusion, inviting the reader to see what he is seeing and revel in the beauty of the commonplace and familiar.His work is among some of the highest caliber of the twentieth century, despite his relative anonymity.Do not miss his work.

you've gotta have this
I haven't read Jean Valentine's work, but I cannot imagine her book being more worthy of the National Book Award than Justice's Collected Poems. This book is phenomenal. Justice almost doesn't write a bad poem, and he writes many great ones. He has a formal mastery and a mastery of free verse. Justice has a way with words, metaphor, imagery, the line, with everything that makes a poem great that few of his contemporaries have. And this spans his career. You get his early great work, which includes the poems "On the Death of Friends in Childhood," "Thus," "Women in Love," "A Winter Ode to the Old Men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida," "Counting the Mad, "Men at Forty" (his best poem), "To the Unknown Lady Who Wrote the Letters Found in a Hatbox," "The Grandfathers," "The Telephone Number of the Muse"--to his midcareer greats (my favorite being "My South"), and even in his seventies he still continuted to write great poems (see "Ralph: A Love Story" in the New Poems section). He's truly a master.

Men at Forty

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

At rest on a stair landing,
They feel it moving
Beneath them now like the deck of a ship,
Though the swell is gentle.

And deep in mirrors
They rediscover
The face of the boy as he practices tying
His father's tie there in secret,

And the face of that father,
Still warm with the mystery of lather.
They are more fathers than sons themselves now.
Something is filling them, something

That is like the twilight sound
Of the crickets, immense,
Filling the woods at the foot of the slope
Behind their mortgaged houses.
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"He is one of our finest poets, " Anthony Hecht has said of Donald Justice. Winner most recently of a 1996 Lannan Literary Award, Justice has been the recipient of almost every contemporary grant and prize for poetry, from the Lamont to the Bollingen and the Pulitzer. The present volume replaces his 1980 SELECTED POEMS and contains, in addition, poems from the last 15 years. ... Read more

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Gut wrenching, unforgettable poetry
The poems of Donald Justice reach into the deepest recesses of memory, time, and reflection.There is a certain elegance and eerie understatement about his work that is the hallmark of a great talent.While I think it would be unfair to compare him to Philip Larkin, who was far more of a conscious "Nay-sayer" than Justice ever was, his gentle melancholy and razor-blade lucidity pervade even his lighter work:

"On The Death Of Friends In Childhood

We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven
Nor sunning themselves among the bald of hell;
If anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight,
forming a ring, perhaps, or joining hands
In games whose very names we have forgotten.
Come memory, let us seek them there in the shadows"

This luminous regret coupled with the appreciation of fleeting beauty is tempered by the not quite ultimate, but certainly undying, hope of a kind of redemption:

"A Birthday Candle"

Thirty today, I saw
The trees flare briefly like
The candles on a cake,
As the sun went down the sky,
A momentary flash,
Yet there was time to wish"

For all his seriousness, Justice was not afraid to play around, even sometimes employing Dadaist techniques in the subject matter of his poetry: "Ode To A Dressmaker's Dummy", one of his best pieces, was inspired by the instructions found on the back of a store-front window dummy. This is the kind of work that deserves national attention, and I have little doubt that Donald Justice's poetic legacy will with time become legendary.

One Of Our Best Contemporary Poets
Twenty or more years ago-- it may have been longer-- I heard a poet read his poetry at Emory University in Atlanta. One of his poems seared itself into my brain and heart and I have never forgotten it: "On the Death of Friends in Childhood."

We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven,
Nor sunning themselves among the bald of hell;
If anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight,
Forming a ring, perhaps, or joining hands
In games whose very names we have forgotten.
Come, memory, let us seek them there in the shadows.

Poetry doesn't get much better than this. Yet in this quite wonderful collection, Mr. Justice includes poem after poem that both engage the intellect and wrap themselves around our hearts. There is a beautiful poem about the death of his grandmother entitled "First Death", and a poem about growing old, "Men at Forty": Men at forty/Learn to close softly/The doors to rooms they will not be/Coming back to. "On an Anniversary" is a beautiful love poem written (I assume) to his wife of thirty years: "Time (but as with a glove)/Lightly touches you, my love."

The list goes on and on. Unlike many modern poets, Mr. Justice writes in many styles besides the free verse that has had a kudzu effect on a lot of poetry-- sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, etc.

I mourn Mr. Justice's recent death but take comfort in knowing that he remains very much alive through his marvelous verse.

Benign, not so obscure
As far as I know, this is the definitive collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.It contains selections from six previous collections as well as fifteen new poems.I found it enjoyable and recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary poetry.Justice writes about issues that many other poets do-memory, loneliness, loss, and history-but approaches such ideas with a fresh and precise language.Many critiques discuss his intense devotion to classical forms and techniques, but there is also a great deal to enjoy in Justice's occasional bending and stretching of such strictures.Definitely recommended.

An excellent collection! Deep, thought-provoking.
Donald Justice's work is lyrical and traditional, with a broad reach that pulls you in to his vision of the world.Justice's poetry reflects the certainties of our lives and forms a basis for poetic discourse.
Justice often uses mirror imagery in his poems.In fact, mirrors used to reflect the soul are a major theme in his New and Selected Poems. The mirrors here demonstrate the way our reflections show us an inner "face," not the ones we fix for the world to see. Justice employs this sense ofduality to represent thedifferent "faces" of human nature. We all have a bright side that we show the world, and, beneath, a more secret self. Thisis the image that is often fogged, and warped when we peer closely into it.

Justice: New and Selected Poems
Donald Justice expresses himself powerfully through an economy of words. His poignant ideas and feelings penetrate his highly structured poetic forms and rhyming schemes without seeming stilted or academic. In acceptingthe formal and rather out-of-mode forms of poetry, he could compare topainters Sargent or Whistler. ... Read more

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review for A DONALD JUSTICE READER
This book contains the author's favourite poems and of his own typical poetry style.Lots of poems and several poses.One will be surprise at the way the poems link to ownself's life.This is a worthy book with many of his well-liked poetry of Donald Justice, the great poet. ... Read more

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Mr. Justice as the potential and potent liar in the eyes of the public
Mr. Justice does not write in the ornate High Romantic diction of Keats.

Nor does he utilize those beloved and time-tested emotive vehicles such as that 'dramatic syntax' which was so convenient for Yeats to create drama and romanticized feelings through 'arguing against the impossible'. Hard as we look, we can not locate the misplaced and distorted images comparable to those in Dali's paintings that are so determinedly psychoanalytic. Yet when we put all the seemingly transparent elements of his poems in the Night Light together -- the minimally enjambed lines, the subtle syntax, the diction that is so simple as to verge on mundaneness, the clear lacking of rich and juicy tropes no versifiers can resist, and the nuanced rhetoric -- somehow a vision of utter other-worldliness materializes in front of us, defying any earthly logic we might have believed we possess. Maybe Nobokov was right after all. Maybe 'all stories are fairy tales'. Maybe all writers are liars, and Mr. Justice is simply a better liar than the rest of us, someone who lies through simple and almost naive-sounding language. Maybe that was how he stole and abused our trusts in the first place. But then maybe there is magic in simple words after all. Maybe there is magic in this simple world as well. Maybe by shunningthe iridescent 'cloth of heaven', we can actually be looking at the magic of this world for once. Maybe we all should be ashamed of ourselves, writers who believe only in the power of imagination, and the potential of words to be systematic misleading.

But maybe all we see is only Mr. Justice's imagination. Maybe we shall never be able to know the answer to that question. All we do know is that Mr. Justice's poetry absolutely blossomed in the first book of poetry he wrote after stepping into free verse from his more formal earlier endeavors (maybe we all should start from writing metric poems?). The only reason he is losing a star in this review is he seemed to fail -- or maybe not care enough? believe enough? -- to advocate his poetry to the general public, and thus remained a 'poet's poet' to this day, despite all the poets influenced by him and the Iowa Writer's Workshops. ... Read more

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Justice definetly Denied
I had to read this book for school and write a report on it, and once you really got into the book, it really turns out to be one of those books that you just simply can't put down. In reading this book I felt really angry towards the Sydney police department and the way they conducted their investigation. It is simply horrifying to think that people would conduct themselves the way they did in order to make themselves a hero and send an innocent man (at that time teen) to jail to serve a life sentence and simply let him rot there for eleven years. ... Read more

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In OBLIVION, Donald Justice focuses his critical attention on 20th century literary matters. Engaging the battles of present trends and obsessions, he subtly explores the nature of obscurity, sincerity, style, memory, meter, free-verse, and music. OBLIVION closes with generous excerpts from Justice's own notebooks, providing a rare glimpse into the creative process of a writer whom many critics consider a central conscience of the late 20th century. ... Read more

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HOLD BACK THE NIGHT
OBLIVION rates five stars for the title essay alone. No, it's not about the fall of Valhalla, although oblivion is a fit battle for Titans, before they too are swallowed up. Rather, it memorializes wonderful poets and writers who have had only glancing recognition and, should they go on writing after a crucial understanding of what they can expect from their works, still find in themselves the joy of pages that shine with blood and a supernal sense of selfworth. ... Read more

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Although this text covers the traditional topics of police, courts, and corrections, it is distinctive in its coverage of plea bargaining, legal and ethical values, and capital punishment.

This text is unique in its critical thinking approach: student as decision maker, student as problem solver, student as working professional. Pat Anderson examines the system from the point of view of the men and women who run it; from the cop on the beat to the prison warden to the Supreme Court justice.The reader steps into their shoes to weigh the ethical ramifications and often contradictory issues that surround the choices they make. ... Read more

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This outstanding new Eighth Edition is thoroughly rewritten and revised and is completely reset in type. POLICE WORK WITH JUVENILES AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUVENILE JUSTICE has made a unique contribution to the juvenile justice literature for four decades. It is a scholarly treatise on the subject emphasizing a philosophical approach. However, it addresses the principal issues and concepts with a practical orientation, making it an invaluable resource for both students and practitioners. The book has from its inception in 1954 highlighted the police role and functions with interrelationships between community agencies, the courts and correctional agencies emphasized. Each component of the juvenile justice system is treated in a meaningful manner.This edition focuses upon the issues of changes taking place in the juvenile justice system. The substantial increases in juveniles responsible for crimes of violence has continued the transformation of the juvenile court toward a criminal court. The past two decades has reversed the rehabilitation movement toward that of punishment for juvenile offenders. The legislatures have responded with tougher laws. Current research into chronic juvenile recidivism suggests that a multiple agency approach including family support coordinated by probation may be the only realistic way to "save" juvenile offenders from lives of crime. New in this edition is fuller treatment of the role and functions of the juvenile court judge and a more detailed historical perspective of the juvenile court. Each chapter has been preceded by "Chapter Objectives" and "Key Concepts" to provide the reader a quick overview of chapter content. A long-awaited and needed Eighth Edition. ... Read more

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The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception.Many historians have suggested that, between the Conquest and the Rebellions (1760s–1830s), Quebec’s ‘Canadien’ inhabitants both boycotted and were excluded from the British criminal justice system.Magistrates, Police, and People challenges this simplistic view of the relationship between criminal law and Quebec society, offering instead a fresh view of a complex accord.

Based on extensive research in judicial and official sources, Donald Fyson offers the first comprehensive study of the everyday workings of criminal justice in Quebec and Lower Canada.Focussing on the justices of the peace and their police, Fyson examines both the criminal justice system itself, and the system in operation as experienced by those who participated in it.Fyson contends that, although the system was fundamentally biased, its flexibility provided a source of power for ordinary citizens. At the same time, everyday criminal justice offered the colonial state and colonial elites a powerful, though often faulty, means of imposing their will on Quebec society.This fascinating and controversial study will challenge many received historical interpretations, providing new insight into the criminal justice system of early Quebec.

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The moral of the story....is what???
I grew up in Danville, and was thus very interested in the subject matter of thislittle book. This depiction of the 1903 lynching, riot, and trials is ultimately disappointing because the reader is nevertold what happened to the convicted rioters. They were sentenced to "indeterminate" sentences at Chester penitentiary, but we are never told whether they served three months or three years. If you are familiar with Bob Dylan's song, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", it's like not knowing whether William Zantzinger served 6 months or 60 years. If you are interested in the big question of whether justice was done, this book will not tell you. ... Read more

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Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook highlights continuing controversies and emerging solutions and provides a discussion of the programs, laws, and policies concerning our young people. Also featured are profiles of notable individuals, agencies, and policy-makers in juvenile justice and delinquency prevention.

While the focus is on the United States, comparisons to international programs and policies are here as well. A directory of national and international organizations dealing with children's rights and juvenile justice wraps up this highly readable and insightful reference. Students, and those who work with children and teens, will appreciate this broad overview of the causes of delinquency and the workings of the juvenile justice system. Also provided are cutting-edge research studies, up-to-the-minute statistics, and authoritative sources to further explore these topics.