The Snake-Haired Muse: James K. Baxter And Classical Myth

Contending that James K. Baxter’s use of Greek myth is close to the heart of his poetic vision, this draws on the subject’s entire career, mounting the first-ever sustained investigation of his vast corpus of unpublished poems. Baxter’s mythic figures and ambiguous symbols are explored, to which he repeatedly returned in his attempts to establish patterns out of the 'chaos' of his experiences.