A Daughter's Latitude: New & Selected Poems

by Karen Swenson

These selected poems of an award-winning poet and journalist re-enliven everyday events witnessed at home and abroad.

Genres: Poetry

250 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1999

About the author

She grew up in Chappaqua, New York, and studied at Barnard College and New York University.

Swenson has been Poet-in-Residence at Skidmore College, the University of Idaho, University of Denver, Clark University, Scripps College and Barnard College. She taught at City College, New York.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, "Saturday Review", and "The New Yorker".

Reviews

[Pachyderm Bookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

With the publication of these poems, the author has thoroughly located and grounded herself within her larger and more adverse geophysical and hotly traveled, contested, and overly politicized world to firmly establish a greater sense of "time," "space," and "place," within the evermore largely ever-expanding emotional milieu already apparent here.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

read about 1/2

some great poems.