Koon Woon -- poetry

Koon Woon is the author of The Truth in Rented Rooms and Water Chasing Water, two full volumes of poetry from Kaya Press. He is also the author of the chapbook The Burden of Sanity and Other Poems. Koon has published his poems in many small journals in the US and abroad. He is an anthologist as well as a poet anthologized internationally. Having been born in China and lived mostly in the US, he he able to bridge two cultures as well to offer an intimate knowledge of Chinatown, USA. Thus, his work is studied in universities for Asian-American studies for Chinatown studies, cultural hybridity and simply for the poetry.