Gabriel Rosenstock was born in postcolonial Ireland and is a poet, tankaist, haikuist, short story Q writer, novelist, playwright, essayist, blogger, translator and children's writer. Secret of Secrets/ Rún na Rún is a recent title in a series of free ekphrastic tanka books published in association with Cross-Cultural Communications. He says of this line by Li He--which translates as the pitter-patter of rain on Dongting Lake is like the playing of a flute--dòng tíng yu jiao lái chuī sheng: There is some evidence to suggest that it was written by myself.
