Description:
Poetry. Translation from the Italian. Harry Thomas's own poems and his translations of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi, Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, and Primo Levi.
Brief description:
Harry Thomas is the translator of Joseph Brodsky's masterpiece, Gorbunov and Gorchakov (To Urania, 1987). He is the editor of Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 1993), Montale in English (Penguin, 2002) and Poems about Trees (Knopf, 2019). His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in dozens of magazines. From 2001 to 2010 he was editor-in-chief of Handsel Books, an imprint of Other Press. His critical work includes Berryman's Understanding (Northeastern 1988).
From Harry Thomas and Un-Gyve Press: Some Complicity: Poems & Translations (2013), The Truth of Two: Selected Translations (2017) and Haiku (2020).