Landlady in Bangkok - (National Poetry) by Karen Swenson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.--<i>Wall Street Journal</i><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Probing the local genius as expressed in history and customs, Swenson absorbs the anguish of colonization and dictatorship to reveal ordinary people and events with a sardonic humor, pathos and hope. Her travels arrive at moral ambiguities where cultures clash and where the human population devastates the natural environment. With remarkable technical dexterity, she searches beneath the surface of politics and philosophy to find essential human character.
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