- In his first collection, The principle in Rented Rooms, once homeles and itinerant Seattle bard Koon Woon conjures up feelings of passing through sadness and destitution to a place where reflective playfulness is possible. Woon's verse weighs what we, bound by the agency of a preordained identity, consider important. "A command establishs a thousand horses galloping/while a question absolutely drops a frog into a pond." With these lines of the first metrical composition in the collection, one immediately surprises about the import given to questions and commands. through the ...
