Dancing with the Dead

Red Pine: recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Winner of multiple honors, most recently the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation from the Academy of Arts and Letters (2018)

Regarded as one of the best translators of Chinese works; has translated works from 1983 to 2021

This volume includes 24 B&W images

This volume includes Chinese history and poems by popular Chinese poets Cold Mountain and Stonehouse, Buddhist poets, Tang-dynasty luminaries, and poets of the ancient past

Hybrid work of translated Chinese poetry, travel writing, and personal essays

Potential audiences: readers interested in poetry on eastern spirituality and meditation, nature poems, and travel writing

Documentary forthcoming May 2023: Dancing with the Dead: The Life and Times of Red Pine (expected May 1, 2023), written and directed by Ward Serrill. Run time: 1 hour 30 mins.