Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press, 2009.
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224 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
"In 1969, New Zealand's best-known poet, James K. Baxter, moved to Jerusalem on the Whanganui River to establish a community under the mana of the local hapū, Ngāti Hau. The Jerusalem commune proved a magnet for disaffected and damaged young people. As the setting for Baxter's celebrated late works, Jerusalem Sonnets, Jerusalem Daybook and Autumn Testament, it quickly became the country's most famous hippie community, as well as a media byword for the idealism and excess of the emerging youth culture. But what was life really like at Jerusalem, beyond the popular stereotypes? And what did it mean, for Ngāti Hau, to be deluged with long-haired strangers and with the media attention which followed them? Here, for the first time, events are reconstructed from the point of view of James K. Baxter's followers and of the local people who accepted them."--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-217) and index.
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Contents
The river road -- The commune, the convent and the presbytery -- The tribe of Ngā Mōkai -- From 'Ngā Mōkai' to 'Ngāti Hau Namarua' -- Working the kaupapa -- Bailing the waka: Reef Point and Whenuakura -- From 'Firetrap Castle' to 'Mokai whanau ora' -- Baxter's wake -- Te whiore o te kurī.