Collected Poems; James K. Baxter
Wellington, N.Z: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover : pp. [iv] xxvii [xxx] [2] 656 [ 2 blank] : black cloth boards : gilt to spine : black and mustard dust jacket with bold rose lettering.
Light foxing to top edge; top edge of jacket a little folded. Very good / good. Item #2105
''James K. Baxter (1926 - 72) was a man of contradictions : a fine poet who spent much of his time exercising a concern for society's outcasts ; a man with intense loyalty to his country who frequently condemned it's institutions: a devout convert to Roman Catholicism whose life did not follow many of the usual practises of the Church. But whether he is remembered as the charismatic figure who founded a community for young people amongst the Maoris at Jerusalem or as the gifted and complex poet, he is certain to be recognized as a man whose life and work was central to the New Zealand experience.'' (dust jacket).
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