The Landlady in Bangkok (National Poetry Series) - Softcover

Swenson, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556590679 ISBN 13: 9781556590672

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1994

Synopsis

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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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.

Review:

Adam And His Father
Alien Women; Songkhla, Thailand
An American In Bangkok
The Angel Of Death In Sumatra
Background And Design
The Balinese Witch Doctor
Bayon, Angkor Thom
The Beast
The Bracelet
The Cambodian Box
The Cham Towers At Da Nang
Cold Blood
Cultural Exchange
The Dutchman In Bali
The English Graveyard In Malacca
Felicity
Fisherman In Songkhla
The Garden Again
Getting A Purchase
The Ghost
The Guide
Hatching
Hybrids Of War: A Morality Poem: 1. Vietnam
Hybrids Of War: A Morality Poem: 2. Cambodia
Hybrids Of War: A Morality Poem: 3. Thailalnd
Hybrids Of War: A Morality Poem: 4. The Moral
Isn't It Romantic
Jigsaw
The Landlady In Bangkok
Manokwari, Irian Jaya
Market Women: Lake Toba
Medias Res
Missionaries
My Lai
No Exemption For Tourists
One At Play In The Fields Of
Orangutan Rehab
Polygamy
Share Taxi To Singapore
Stalking Lemurs
Sulawesi: Balconies Of The Dead
Survivors
Three Silences In Thailand
Time And The Perfume River
Trekking The Hills Of Northern Thailand
Tuol Sleng: Pol Pot's Prison
Uncoupling In Bali
A Walk With Shadows In The Bada Valley
We
Wedding Bed In Mangkutana
What Does A Woman Want?
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1556590679
• ISBN 13: 9781556590672
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96