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James K. Baxter
JAMES K. BAXTER
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A Branch Torn Down : Poems Unpublished & Uncollected in the Poet's Lifetime
出版Cold Hub Press, 2024
ISBN04737154739780473715472
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hFLq0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋New Zealand poet James K. Baxter was, in the words of his friend and editor, John Weir, 'a complex, generous, tormented, remarkably gifted man'. A Branch Torn Down is a new selection of 189 poems unpublished and uncollected in the poet's lifetime, ranging from the precociously assured early lyrics (the earliest from the mid-1940s when the poet was still in his teens) to the epistolary verses addressed to friends such as Colin McCahon, Robert Lowry, Janet Frame and Denis Glover; from lively satirical ballads to the haunting final poems written in the days before his death at forty-six in 1972. Although at times priapic, misogynistic, and scatological, his poems nevertheless attest to a deep involvement in the human condition. They are a unique and memorable record of one man's journey 'along the stumbling, terrible, human road'.