James K. Baxter: Complete Prose

by Baxter, James K; Weir, John

• ISBN13: 9781776560370
• ISBN10: 177656037X
• Edition: Boxed
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-01-01
• Publisher: Victoria University Press

Summary

James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’ His Complete Prose chronicles his life and times, his preferences and prejudices, his crises and turbulent occasions. Its contents are remarkable for their range, coherence and passionate integrity. This four-volume set contains over a million words, in the form of reviews, essays, lectures, journal articles, drafts and rough notes, meditations, fables, stories, a short novel, interviews, letters to the editor, correspondence with friends and critics, and diary entries, covering Baxter’s entire career. Edited with scrupulous care by John Weir, Baxter’s friend and the foremost scholar of his work, it also includes an extensive introduction, notes and references, a glossary of Maori words and phrases, biographies of key people, an index and a bibliography.

Author Biography

James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’ He was a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the only cure for society’s ills. John Weir was born in Nelson. He has published poetry, bibliographies and critical monographs and edited a number of collections of James K. Baxter’s poetry, including his Collected Poems. An intimate friend and confidant of Baxter’s, he has spent many years preparing his Complete Prose for publication.