Wild Grass (Yecao, Weeds), is a collection of twenty-three prose poems written by Lu Xun (1881-1936). The poems, written between 1924 and 1926, features some of Lu Xun's most complex and psychologically dense creative works. Lu Xun, formerly also romanized Lu Hsün, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 - 19 October 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.