About the Author

Mike O'Connor is a poet and translator. He has published three volumes of his own poetry in addition to translating two volumes of the work of Buddhist poet Chia Tao. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

Reviews

"Mike O'Connor's renderings, accurate and eminently readable, seem to me to represent an usually happy meeting of poet and translator, one that will please poetry lovers and students of Chinese culture alike." - Burton Watson, translator of The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu and The Lotus Sutra."