Selected Poems : James K. Baxter.

Cover -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- THE 1940S -- Chapter -- Beyond the Palisade -- The Mountains -- Love-Lyric III -- Letter to Noel Ginn -- The First Forgotten -- University Song -- Envoi [to 'University Song'] -- High Country Weather -- Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness -- Odysseus -- Returned Soldier -- The Bay -- Sea Noon -- Let Time be Still -- Tunnel Beach -- Songs of the Desert, 8 -- To my Father -- The Cave -- Farmhand -- Letter to Noel Ginn II -- Poem by the Clock Tower, Sumner -- Virginia Lake -- Hart Crane -- Wellington -- Rocket Show -- Wild Bees -- Poem in the Matukituki Valley -- THE 1950S -- Chapter -- A Rented Room -- The Fallen House -- Cressida, 11: Her Decision -- The Bad Young Man -- The Homecoming -- Never No More -- The Surfman's Story -- Perseus -- Spring Song -- Elegy at the Year's End -- Lament for Barney Flanagan -- To my Father -- The Giant's Grave -- Reflections on a Varsity Career -- Crossing Cook Strait -- Harry Fat and Uncle Sam -- A Rope for Harry Fat -- Husband to Wife -- In Fires of No Return -- By the Dry Cardrona -- At Hokianga -- Pyrrha -- At Akitio -- The Phoenix' Nest -- Song of the Years -- Howrah Bridge -- School Days -- This Indian Morning -- Night in Delhi -- Be Happy in Bed -- Elephanta -- Return to Exile -- Mr Baxter's Evening Liturgy -- Spring Song of a Civil Servant -- THE 1960S -- Chapter -- The Sixties -- Ballad of Calvary Street -- Evidence at the Witch Trials -- Christchurch 1948 -- Winter -- To Our Lady of Perpetual Help -- On the Death of her Body -- Election 1960 -- A Dentist's Window -- To a Samoan Friend -- At Raspberry Hut -- The Rubber Monkey -- A Family Photograph 1939 -- The Tree -- The Bureaucrats -- At Serrières -- The Hollow Place -- The Dying Nazi Guard -- The Town under the Sea -- Home Thoughts -- The Cold Hub.

Martyrdom -- The Iron Cradle -- Father to Son -- To Any Young Man who Hears my Verses Read in a Lecture Room -- An Ode to the Reigning Monarch on the Occasion of Her Majesty's Visit to Pig Island -- The Axe-Blade -- Shingle Beach Poem -- East Coast Journey -- Pig Island Letters -- The Waves -- Letter to Robert Burns -- Tomcat -- from The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady -- Thoughts of a Remuera Housewife -- To a Print of Queen Victoria -- Ballad of Nine Jobs -- A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar -- The Old Earth Closet -- The Lion Skin -- On Possessing the Burns Fellowship 1966 -- At Aramoana -- The Maori Jesus -- Daughter -- from Words to Lay a Strong Ghost -- To my Father in Spring -- Travelling to Dunedin -- At Queenstown -- At the Fox Glacier Hotel -- Mother and Son -- At Kuri Bush -- At Brighton Bay -- Fitz Drives Home the Spigot -- Winter River -- Grandfather -- Iron Scythe Song -- The River -- At Naseby -- Reflections at Lowburn Ferry -- Air Flight North -- Winter Poem to my Wife -- Safety -- A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting -- Tangi -- The Rock Woman -- The Fear of Change -- Spring -- Summer 1967 -- The Caryatids -- The Doctrine -- Here -- The Black Star -- The Bargain -- Stephanie -- To Patric Carey -- Letter to Sam Hunt -- THE JERUSALEM PERIOD -- Chapter -- [The book is shut] -- For Hone -- from Ballad of the Junkies and the Fuzz -- Jerusalem Sonnets Poems for Colin Durning -- Haere Ra -- The Labyrinth -- Meditation on my Father's Death -- Winter Monologue -- The Ikons -- Song for Sakyamuni -- from He Waiata mo taku Tangi -- He Waiata mo Te Kare -- from Autumn Testament -- Te Whiore o te Kuri -- from Letter to Peter Olds -- from Five Sestinas -- Sestina of the River Road -- Sestina of the Makutu -- The Tiredness of Me and Herakles -- Ode to Auckland -- [Moss on plum branches] -- [A pair of sandals].

NOTES, GLOSSARIES, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES -- Notes on the Poems -- Māori Glossary -- Glossary of Selected Non-Māori Words -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines -- About the Author -- Copyright.

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. Indicating the full breadth of Baxter's writing, the selection pleases and surprises both new readers and those familiar with his poetry.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.