The following post is the third of three posts concerning Donald Justice, some of his teachings from his days when I was at the University of Florida, and how they might be used in reading his COLLECTED POEMS.THE COLLECTED POEMS, Knopf (August 17, 2004) ISBN: 1400042399

I'd suggest reading Part I and II before reading this third. These are the links to the prior two posts:

NOTES ON DONALD JUSTICE, THE STUDY
OF PROSODY, & THE COLLECTED POEMS: A DONALD JUSTICE PRIMER (PART I OF III)

NOTES ON DONALD JUSTICE, THE STUDY
OF PROSODY, & THE COLLECTED POEMS: A DONALD JUSTICE PRIMER (PART II of III)

There have been several Donald Justice tributes in the past few days:

The first was "A TRIBUTE TO DONALD JUSTICE, Poets remember Donald Justice and read from his work, Tuesday March 29th, 2005, co-sponsored by Alfred A. Knopf, with Jorie Graham, Debora Greger, William Logan, and Mark Strand. Introduced by the poet and critic Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts." It was be held at The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC.

The second was a special event at AWP, Vancouver, REMEMBERING DONALD JUSTICE, It was held Friday, April 1st at 10:30 AM, Pacific Ballroom, 3rd floor, Fairmont Hotel with readings from Marvin Bell, Carol Frost, Jerry Harp, and Robert Dana.

There may be others. Consider a tribute of your own. Read or re-read the COLLECTED POEMS. There is always more there to discover.

NOTES ON DONALD JUSTICE, THE STUDY OF PROSODY, & THE COLLECTED POEMS: A DONALD JUSTICE PRIMER (PART III of III)

Short-line Free Verse and Other Types

In Donald Justice's prosody class we examined many different kinds of meters in the English language. This included different types of free verse. In his class after the examination of the different types of long-line free verse we moved onto discussions of short-line free verse.

In our discussions of short-line free verse, Justice noted some principle types:

Type A was the "imagist line" as found in the Bible, in Whitman, and so forth.
Type B was the "loosened syllabic line or short lines with a possible syllabic source."

As examples of Type A Justice provided samples from H.D., Wallace Stevens, Pound, Walter Conrad Arensberg, John Gould Fletcher, Richard Aldington, Conrad Aiken, Ferdinand Reyher, Amy Lowell, Theodore Roethke, James Wright, Galway Kinnell, and Gregory Orr, Guillevic, and Rafael Alberti.

SHORT LINE TYPE A

There are many short-line free verse poems written by Donald Justice in the Type A category. Here is a brief list from his COLLECTED POEMS: