Research Catalog

Title

O Jerusalem : James K. Baxter : an intimate memoir / Mike Minehan.

Author

Minehan, Mike.

Publication

Christchurch : Hazard Press, 2002.

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Description

76 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

" ... Mike Minehan tells her very own version of life at the Maori pa in Jerusalem on the Wanganui river ... she gives a poetical and sensitive insight into her relationship with James K. Baxter, the son she bore him and the influence these events had on her ..."--Back cover.

Subject

• Baxter, James K
• Collective settlements > New Zealand
• Jerusalem (N.Z.)

Genre/Form

• New Zealand poetry – 21st century.
• Biographies
• Poetry

Note

• Subtitle on cover: One woman's powerful testimony of her journey there and back.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Authors' note -- Bones -- Leaving -- Hopw it was -- What manner of woman is this? -- Picture this in 1971 -- What happens -- Night falsl and -- The river road -- Corners are there for the turning -- The arrival -- Auckland nights -- Dr Fell -- NMeanwhile -- The moment -- What is there -- Now -- Day by day -- Afternoon -- To be poor is to know a certain freedom -- Mornings at Bag End -- The tribe -- Cleanliness is next to godliness -- Nights -- The ghost house -- Refuge -- At the pa -- Song -- Change -- The river road -- What happened then: a letter -- Journey through the dark -- Toward's journey's end -- Oh, Jerusalem! -- Jerusalem pilgrim -- As it is now.

ISBN

1877270385

OCLC

• 53234751
• SCSB-12320181

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library