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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

Landlady in Bangkok

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    A Paperback / softback by Karen Swenson

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      Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 14/07/1994
      ISBN13: 9781556590672, 978-1556590672
      ISBN10: 1556590679

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      Book 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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