The landlady in Bangkok
By: Karen Swenson.
Series: The national poetry series
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Port Townsend, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Description: 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.