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Baxter Black (January 10, 1945 – June 10, 2022) was an American cowboy poet and veterinarian. He wrote over 30 books of poetry , fiction —both novels and children's literature —and commentary, selling over two million books, CDs , and DVDs .
In 2000, a collection of songs written to Baxter's poems was released, titled Baxter, and featuring some of New Zealand's most well-known musicians: for example Dave Dobbyn, Martin Phillipps, Emma Paki, Greg Johnson, David Downes and Mahinārangi Tocker. [34] It was devised by New Zealand singer-songwriter Charlotte Yates. [35]
He performed his distinct yet Baxteresque performance poetry at all of the local poetry performance venues: the Arc Café, the Port Chalmers Hotel (The Tunnel), and the Dunedin Public Library. While preferring the orality of performance, a few poems were published in student magazine, The Critic. His poems frequently interlace the gravity of ...
Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber (Eaton) Baxter.He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1969. In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West.
^a Baxter cites the pronunciation "ch-ee-lee" in Xeelee: Vengeance. It is unclear why, given the history of the author himself pronouncing it as "zee-lee", but one possible reason is that it reflects how the name came to be pronounced in-universe due to language change, especially considering Baxter's prior references to glottochronology in the ...
he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.
Baxter (punk band), an American post-hardcore band, and the name of their first album as well as their 2003 compilation album Baxter , a 2000 album in which various New Zealand musicians set 12 of James K. Baxter 's poems to music
Sylvester Baxter (February 6, 1850 [1] –1927) was an American newspaper writer, poet, and urban planner in the Boston area. In 1893 he became the first secretary of the Massachusetts Metropolitan Park Commission and along with Charles Eliot was a chief force in the development of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston .