Landlady in Bangkok

Author/Contributor(s):	Swenson, Karen
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Date:	06/01/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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