The Burden of Sanity & Other Poems
by Koon Woon, Chrysanthemum Publications 2004, ISBN 0-9712598-0-x
is a chapbook of some of Koon's finest published poems including nominations for Pushcart Prize.
This unusual chapbook is a veritable mix of cultures - an algorithmic rendition of a pre-computer, changeless society of China catapulted into the space-age of one-way tickets into the unknown.
But the reader will find a sense of recognition in each and every poem in this 44-page chapbook as the poems take you up in air and take you to water-buffalo slow scenes of the far side of the Pacific, to disorient you, and to return you to American soil via the Beat's preoccupation with everything Asian and enduring.
This chapbook follows on the heels of Koon's highly acclaimed full-length book The Truth in Rented Rooms, winner of the Pen Oakland Award and a finalist in the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Price: $9.95 includes shipping and handling.
Write to 2012 18th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98144, USA or order through email at
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