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Justice, Donald (Rodney)

Justice, Donald [Rodney] (1925–2004), Florida‐born poet, professor at various institutions, including University of Florida beginning in 1982, published gentle, well‐controlled poems in The Summer Anniversaries (1960), Night Light (1967), Departures (1973), Selected Poems (1979, Pulitzer Prize), Tremayne (1984), and New and Selected Poems (1995). A Donald Justice Reader appeared in 1991. The Sunset Maker (1987), combines poems, two stories, and a memoir of youth. He also edited the poems of Weldon Kees (1960) and wrote the libretto for an opera, The Death of Lincoln (1988). Platonic Scripts (1984) contains essays.

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University of Florida

University of Florida at Gainesville; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1853 at Ocala, moved to Gainesville in 1906. The Center for Latin American Studies, the Whitney Marine Laboratory, and the Florida Museum of Natural History are among its research facilities.

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