Galassi, Jonathan

JONATHAN GALASSI is the President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is also a translator of poetry and a poet himself. Galassi has translated and published the poetic works of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale, and has published two volumes of his own poetry, Morning Run (1998) and North Street (2000). His honors as a poet include a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was Poetry Editor for The Paris Review for ten years, and is an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets.