Career
Since he made his poetic debut in 1967, he has published six volumes of poetry, a novel, Janajevin unet (Yanayev"s Dreams, 1991), and an experimental prose work, Päivä (Day, 2004). He has been active in leftist politics (during the 1970s) and worked as a corporate executive in communications industry (during the 1990s). He is also known for his experiments in digital writing, such as the Google Poem Generator.
His translations, some forty books in total, range from mystery writing to philosophy, sociology, and poetry, including work by Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, George Orwell, Stephen King, Ian McEwan, Josef Skvorecky, Walter Benjamin, John Keats, John Ashbery, Mickey Spillane and Charles Bernstein.
His latest work is the new Finnish translation of Ulysses by James Joyce. Leevi Lehto"s first volume of poetry in English, Lake Onega and Other Poems, is published by Salt Publishing in November 2006.
