HARRY THOMAS is the translator of Joseph Brodsky's masterpiece, "Gorbunov and Gorchakov" (To Urania, Penguin, 1987), and his selected translations were published as May This Be (Jackdaw Press, 2001). Harry Thomas is the editor of Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 1993) and Monatale in English (Penguin, 2002). His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in dozens of magazines. He is Editor-in-Chief of Handsel Books, an imprint of Other Press and an affiliate of W. W. Norton.