Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter): 'In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu'
b'Red Pine read poems by Wei Ying-wu (737-791), who is \\nconsidered one of the great poets of the T\'ang Dynasty, ranked alongside such poets as Tu Fu, Li Pai, and Wang Wei. Wei disdained the literary establishment of his day and fashioned a poetic style counter to the mainstream: one of profound simplicity centered in the natural world. Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) is one of the world\'s leading translators of Chinese literary and religious texts. His body of work includes "Poems of the Masters," "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain," "The Heart Sutra," Lao-tzu\'s Taoteching, and many more.'