Water Chasing Water: New and Selected Poetry
Water Chasing Water: New and Selected Poetry
Author: Koon Woon
Desc: 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."