About Phil H
What I Do Here
My name’s Phil H, and I’m a translator and teacher. I translate Tang poetry because it’s one of the world’s great literatures, but it’s criminally under-represented in English. Most poems have never been translated. A large body of famous poems have only been translated two or three times. And even for the few that have been translated more - classics from Wang Wei or Du Fu - we’re still in the low dozens of English versions. Dozens might sound like a lot, but there are hundreds and thousands of English Dantes and Homers out there.