For Us, What Music?: The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice

Because Jerry Harp was Donald Justice's student, his personal knowledge of his subject-combined with his deep understanding of Justice's oeuvre-works to remarkable advantage in For Us, What Music" Harp reads with keen intelligence, placing each poem within the precise historical moment it was written and locating it in the context of the literary tradition within which Justice worked. Throughout the text runs the narrative of Justice's life, tying together the poems and informing Harp's interpretation of them. For Us, What Music" grants readers a remarkable understanding of one of America's greatest poets.