The double rainbow
Subtitle: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem community
By: John Newton.
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780864736031
Subjects: Baxter, James K; Communal living -- New Zealand
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.198-217) and index.