Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Li Bai is influential in the West partly due to Ezra Pound 's versions of some of his poems in the collection Cathay , such as The River Merchant 's Wife : A Letter .
Simplified: Li Bai is influential in the West partly due to Ezra Pound 's versions of some of his poems in the collection ` Cathay ' .