Product Description: Divided into four stages to reflect the development of James K. Baxter’s work from the 1940s to 1972, this innovative assortment combines the poet’s widely known poems with more unusual and previously unpublished works. Placing these works in the context of global poetic developments during the mid-20th century, the collection showcases Baxter’s preferred position as a principled outsider—covering everything from mythology and religion, memory and death, Maori culture and the New Zealand landscape to travels to India and Japan and protesting the Vietnam War...read more

Product Description: A new reissue of the definitive edition of 200 poems chosen from a corpus of 600, the work here ranges across his entire career, both before and after his conversion to Catholicism. This edition includes two poems not in the original, Moss on Plum Branches and A Pair of Sandals, both written in the week of the poet's death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Although many treasure the poetry of New Zealander James K. Baxter, less familiar are his forays into written prose and public speaking which similarly dazzle, challenge, and entertain. Laced with the humor, passion, intelligence, and everyday detail beloved of his poetry, this unique selection of writings explores those issues--social life, love, religion, nature, and everyday life--which make Baxter's life and work central to the New Zealand experience and to his generation...read more