Landlady in Bangkok
Writing poems set in Southeast Asia, Swenson absorbs the anguish of colonization and dictatorship to reveal ordinary people and events with a sardonic humor, pathos, and hope. Selected for the National Poetry Series by Maxine Kumin."She is...a poet of consequence, bearing witness in charged language to all that she has seen."—Wall Street Journal
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Landlady in Bangkok
Writing poems set in Southeast Asia, Swenson absorbs the anguish of colonization and dictatorship to reveal ordinary people and events with a sardonic humor, pathos, and hope. Selected for the National Poetry Series by Maxine Kumin."She is...a poet of consequence, bearing witness in charged language to all that she has seen."—Wall Street Journal
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Landlady in Bangkok

Landlady in Bangkok

by Karen Swenson
Landlady in Bangkok

Landlady in Bangkok

by Karen Swenson

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Writing poems set in Southeast Asia, Swenson absorbs the anguish of colonization and dictatorship to reveal ordinary people and events with a sardonic humor, pathos, and hope. Selected for the National Poetry Series by Maxine Kumin."She is...a poet of consequence, bearing witness in charged language to all that she has seen."—Wall Street Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781556590672
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 06/01/1994
Series: National Poetry Series
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.40(d)
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