The Truth of Two

Harry Thomas's translations of Catullus, Li Bai, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Giacomo Leopardi, Salvador Díaz Mirón, Paul Valéry, Antonio Machado, Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Pedro Salinas, Eugenio Montale, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Primo Levi, Yves Bonnefoy, Joseph Brodsky.

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).