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"
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1556590679
ISBN13:9781556590672
Release Date:June 1994
Publisher:Copper Canyon Press
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.39 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
Related Subjects
Asia History Poetry Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Women's StudiesCustomer Reviews
2 ratings
Swenson's poems are mesmerizing.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of a glass tower in Cambodia filled with skulls overlooking a picnic ground. The poems consist of other such exquisite oxymorons. As a woman, I would hesitate to visit the countries about which Swenson writes; I am enriched by her travels.
Swenson's poems are mesmerizing.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of a glass tower in Camboda, filled with skulls "facing" outward in four directions, overlooking a picnic ground. Swenson takes us places we had not perhaps originally considered traveling as women alone, and we are richer for it.
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