Alan berliner edwin honig biography

American poet, playwright, and translator

Edwin Honig (September 3, &#; May 25, )^[1] was an American poet, playwright, and translator.

Life

Honig was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in and, after Army service in Europe during World War II, a master’s in English from Wisconsin.^[2] He published ten books of poetry, eight books of translation, five books of criticism and fiction, three books of plays.

He taught at Harvard University and Brown University, where he started the Graduate Writing Program, and was Emeritus Professor. He was on the Advisory Board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.^[3]

His work appeared in AGNI and Nedge magazines.^[4][5]

Professor Honig’s first wife, Charlotte, died in the early s. His second marriage, to Margot Dennes, ended in divorce in the early s.

Following an illness, cited by a family friend as complications from Alzheimer's disease, Honig died on May 25, ^[6] Professor Honig's survivors include his sister, Lila Putnam, and his two adopted sons from his marriage to Ms. Dennes, Daniel (born ) and Jeremy (born ).^[2]

In , filmmaker Alan Berliner completed a documentary feature film about Honig and Honig's loss of memory due to Alzheimer's titled, First Cousin Once Removed. Berliner's mother was Honig's first cousin. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 9.^[7]

Awards

Work

Poetry

• The Moral Circus. Baltimore, MD: Contemporary Poetry.
• The Gazabos: Forty-one Poems. New York, NY: Clarke & Way.
• Survivals. New York, NY: October House.
• Spring Journal. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN&#;.
• Four Springs. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press.
• Shake a Spear with Me, John Berryman: New Poems and a Play. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. ISBN&#;.
• At Sixes. Providence, RI: Burning Deck Press.
• Selected Poems, . Montrose, AL: Texas Center for Writers. ISBN&#;.
• Cow/lines. Copper Beach Press. ISBN&#;. with illustrations by Jean Zaleski
• Gifts of Light. Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press. ISBN&#;.
• Interrupted Praise: New/Selected Poems. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN&#;.
• The Imminence of Love: Poems . Texas Center for Writers. September ISBN&#;.: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Time and Again: Poems, . Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris. ISBN&#;.

Plays

• The Widow (verse play), first produced in San Francisco, CA,
• Calisto and Melibea (libretto; first produced in Davis, CA, ), Hellcoal Press (Providence, RI),
• Ends of the World and Other Plays. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. ISBN&#;.

Translations

• Miguel de Cervantes (). The Cave of Salamanca. Crysalis.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Four Plays. Hill & Wang.
• Miguel de Cervantes, Eight Interludes. New York, NY: New American Library. ISBN&#;.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (). Four plays. Hill and Wang. ISBN&#;.
• Selected Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press. ISBN&#;.
• Federico García Lorca (). Divan and Other Writings. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. ISBN&#;.
• Lope de Vega (). La Dorotea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN&#;.(With A. S. Trueblood)
• Fernando Pessoa (). The Keeper of Sheep. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN&#;.
• The Poems of Fernando Pessoa. New York, NY: Ecco Press. ISBN&#;.
• Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown. City Lights Books. ISBN&#;.: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Fernando Pessoa: Always Astonished (selected prose). San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. ISBN&#;.
• The Unending Lightning: The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN&#;.
• Federico García Lorca (). Four Puppet Plays, Play without a Title, the Divan Poems, and Other Poems, Prose Poems, and Dramatic Pieces. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN&#;.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (). Six Plays. New York, NY: Fordham University Press. ISBN&#;.

Criticism

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