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Author: Rebecca Porte

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The Passion of James K. Baxter: Part II

  By Rebecca Porte September 29, 2008 October 29, 2010 Essays

II.

Unnamed ghosts trouble Baxter as much as those he addresses specifically; when local and personal history intermingle in the Jerusalem Sonnets, crises of faith tend to arise, as in the twenty-fifth sonnet:

The brown river, te taniwha, flows on .

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The Passion of James K. Baxter

  By Rebecca Porte August 29, 2008 October 29, 2010 Essays

On Frank Sargeson’s wall, up above the fireplace, there used to be (perhaps there still is) a wooden cross . . . . One day I found among cards and pictures on the shelf above the fireplace a photograph of the young Baxter in his alcoholic raincoat.… continue reading...

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