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-bas...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.