Date of Birth
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12-August-1925
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Place of Birth
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Miami
(Florida, United States of America, Area codes 305 and 786, Area code 305, Area code 786, Miami-Dade County)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Donald Rodney Justice
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Profession
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Teacher, Poet, Author, Writer, Essayist
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Donald Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing. In summing up Justice's career David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his poems weren't just good; they were great. They were great in the way that Elizabeth Bishop's poems were great, or Thom Gunn's or Philip Larkin's. They were great in the way that tells us what poetry used to be, and is, and will be."
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