James K. Baxter: A Portrait by Oliver, W.H.

Publisher:
Port Nicholson Press, Wellingon, 1983, First Edition.

Very good hardback with jacket. Binding firm, bumping, light marks, no inscriptions.
Jacket is torn, rubbed, creased, faded and marked.
160 pages, illustrated.

A major biography of New Zealand's foremost poet traces the life of James K. Baxter from his early days in Otago to his final years in a remote community on the Wanganui River. Baxter's life was in many ways a chronicle of his times -- marriage and suburbia in the 1950's, a struggle with religious belief, and then, in the 1960's, the search for a fulfilling life. Throughout it all there was the poetry -- acclaimed from the beginning and celebrated long after his death in 1972, at the age of forty-six. From his first verse written at seven and his first book published when he was eighteen, he was responsible for a remarkable collection of poetry, plays and prose.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

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