Edwin Honig, American poet and translator, died from Alzheimer's disease he was , 91.

 Edwin Honig  was an American poet, playwright, and translator died from Alzheimer's disease he was , 91. .

(September 3, 1919 – May 25, 2011)

Life

He has published ten books of poetry, eight books of translation, five books of criticism and fiction, three books of plays.
He has taught at Harvard University and Brown University, where he started the Graduate Writing Program, and is Emeritus Professor. He is on the Advisory Board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.^[2]
His work appeared in AGNI,^[3] Nedge.^[4]
Following an illness, cited by a family friend as complications from Alzheimer's disease, Honig died on May 25, 2011.^[5]

Award

• 1948 Guggenheim Fellowship
• writer-in-residence Mishkenot Sha'ananim
• The National Endowment for the Arts,
• the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
• 1986 he was knighted by the President of Portugal for his work in literary translation;
• 1996 by the King of Spain.^[6]
• 1968-1969 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• Governor's Medal (Rhode Island)
• Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Club

Work

• "Pacific Grove; Pinch-hitting; To Infinite Eternity; Turning Eighty; Up Sooner Than That; Elsewhere; On Moving On; Fountain". JACKET (16). March 2002.

Poetry

• The Moral Circus. Baltimore, MD: Contemporary Poetry. 1955.
• The Gazabos: Forty-one Poems. New York, NY: Clarke & Way. 1959.
• Survivals. New York, NY: October House. 1965.
• Spring Journal. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 1968. ISBN 9780819520418.
• Four Springs. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press. 1972.
• Shake a Spear with Me, John Berryman: New Poems and a Play. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. 1974. ISBN 9780914278023.
• At Sixes. Providence, RI: Burning Deck Press. 1974.
• Selected Poems, 1955-1976. Montrose, AL: Texas Center for Writers. 1979. ISBN 0916092089.
• Gifts of Light. Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press. 1983. ISBN 9780918824424.
• Interrupted Praise: New/Selected Poems. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. 1983. ISBN 9780810815643.
• The Imminence of Love: Poems 1962-1992. 1993: Texas Center for Writers. ISBN 9780916092160.
• Time and Again: Poems, 1940-1997. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris. 2000. ISBN 9780738895208.

Plays

• The Widow (verse play), first produced in San Francisco, CA, 1953.
• Calisto and Melibea (libretto; first produced in Davis, CA, 1979), Hellcoal Press (Providence, RI), 1972.
• Ends of the World and Other Plays. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. 1983. ISBN 0914278363.

Translations

• Miguel de Cervantes (1960). The Cave of Salamanca. Crysalis.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Four Plays. Hill & Wang. 1961. (And author of introduction) .
• Miguel de Cervantes, Eight Interludes. New York, NY: New American Library. 1964. ISBN 0460877518.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1961). Four plays. Hill and Wang. ISBN 0813114098.
• Selected Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press. 1971. ISBN 9780804005203.
• Federico García Lorca (1974). Divan and Other Writings. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. ISBN 9780914278146.
• Lope de Vega (1985). La Dorotea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674505902.(With A. S. Trueblood)
• Fernando Pessoa (1986). The Keeper of Sheep. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN 9781878818454.
• The Poems of Fernando Pessoa. New York, NY: Ecco Press. 1986. ISBN 9780872863422.
• Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown. City Lights Books. 1998. ISBN 9780872863422.
• Fernando Pessoa: Always Astonished (selected prose). San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. 1988. ISBN 9780872862289.
• The Unending Lightning: The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. 1990. ISBN 9780935296860.
• Federico García Lorca (1990). 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 9780935296945.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1993). Six Plays. New York, NY: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9781882763054.

Criticism

• Richard Wilbur, William Butts, ed (1990). "A Conversation with Richard Wilbur". Conversations with Richard Wilbur. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9780878054251.
• The poet's other voice. University of Massachusetts Press. 1985. ISBN 9780870234774.

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