Water Chasing Water: New and Selected Poetry

By Koon Woon

Book Overview

Described by Bob Holman as "Li Po in drag, the voice of New America," Koon Woon exploded onto the poetry scene in the late 1990s. Largely self-taught, and struggling with both mental illness and homelessness, Seattle-based Woon wrote about the back alleys and tenement rooms on the margins of immigrant culture. His first collection, The Truth in Rented Rooms (included in this volume), won a PEN poetry prize and earned praise from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Garrison Keillor. Water Chasing Water is Woon's second collection, and continues his exploration of loneliness and memory with poems and essays that seek out "This light / Without which existence is not detectable."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885030495
• ISBN13: 9781885030498
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Kaya Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 7.9"