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Edwin Honig

{{Short description|American poet, playwright, and translator}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|09|03}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|05|25|1919|09|03}}

| death_place = Providence, Rhode Island

| nationality = American

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| occupation = Author, professor

| known_for = Poetry, translations

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Edwin Honig (September 3, 1919 – May 25, 2011){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/arts/edwin-honig-a-poet-and-translator-dies-at-91.html?ref=deathsobituaries|title=Edwin Honig, a Poet, Professor and Translator, Dies at 91|work=The New York Times|date=June 4, 2011|author=Margalit Fox}} 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 1941 and, after Army service in Europe during World War II, a master’s in English from Wisconsin.

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.[http://isherwoodfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=27 Isherwoodfoundation.org]

His work appeared in AGNI and Nedge magazines.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/E/Edwin-Honig.html |title=Bu.edu |access-date=2009-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903211341/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/E/Edwin-Honig.html |archive-date=2018-09-03 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/mags/nedge/ |title=Bu.edu |access-date=2009-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184017/http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/mags/nedge/ |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}

Professor Honig’s first wife, Charlotte, died in the early 1960s. His second marriage, to Margot Dennes, ended in divorce in the early 1980s.

Following an illness, cited by a family friend as complications from Alzheimer's disease, Honig died on May 25, 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=6470 |title=Edwin Honig (1919–2011) |last1=Joris |first1=Pierre |date=June 5, 2011 |work=Nomadics |access-date=June 11, 2011}} Professor Honig's survivors include his sister, Lila Putnam, and his two adopted sons from his marriage to Ms. Dennes, Daniel (born 1965) and Jeremy (born 1967).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/arts/edwin-honig-a-poet-and-translator-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&ref=deathsobituaries |title=Edwin Honig, a Poet, Professor and Translator, Dies at 91 |access-date=February 3, 2012 | work=The New York Times |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=June 4, 2011}}

In 2012, 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.[http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/first-cousin-once-removed Filmlinc.com]

Awards

Work

  • {{cite journal| title=Pacific Grove; Pinch-hitting; To Infinite Eternity; Turning Eighty; Up Sooner Than That; Elsewhere; On Moving On; Fountain| journal=JACKET | issue=16 | date=March 2002 | url=http://jacketmagazine.com/16/honig-poems.html }}

=Poetry=

  • {{cite book| title=The Moral Circus| publisher=Contemporary Poetry | place=Baltimore, MD| year=1955 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Gazabos: Forty-one Poems| publisher=Clarke & Way | place=New York, NY| year=1959 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Survivals| publisher=October House | place=New York, NY| year=1965 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Spring Journal| url=https://archive.org/details/springjournalpoe00honi| url-access=registration| publisher=Wesleyan University Press | place=Middletown, CT| year=1968 |isbn=978-0-8195-2041-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Four Springs| publisher=Swallow Press | place=Chicago, IL| year=1972 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Shake a Spear with Me, John Berryman: New Poems and a Play | publisher=Copper Beech Press | place=Providence, RI| year=1974| isbn=978-0-914278-02-3 }}
  • {{cite book| title=At Sixes| publisher=Burning Deck Press| place=Providence, RI| year=1974 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Selected Poems, 1955-1976| publisher=Texas Center for Writers | place=Montrose, AL| year=1979| isbn=0-916092-08-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Cow/lines |publisher=Copper Beach Press |year=1982 |isbn=9780914278375 }} with illustrations by Jean Zaleski
  • {{cite book| title=Gifts of Light| publisher=Turkey Press | place=Isla Vista, CA| year=1983| isbn=978-0-918824-42-4 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Interrupted Praise: New/Selected Poems| publisher=Scarecrow Press| place=Metuchen, NJ| year=1983| isbn=978-0-8108-1564-3| url=https://archive.org/details/interruptedprais00honi}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Imminence of Love: Poems 1962-1992| date=September 1992| publisher=Texas Center for Writers| place=1993| isbn=978-0-916092-16-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Time and Again: Poems, 1940-1997| publisher=Xlibris | place=Philadelphia, PA| year=2000| isbn=978-0-7388-9520-8 }}

=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.
  • {{cite book| title=Ends of the World and Other Plays| publisher=Copper Beech Press | place=Providence, RI| year=1983| isbn=0-914278-36-3 }}

=Translations=

  • {{cite book| author=Miguel de Cervantes| title=The Cave of Salamanca| publisher=Crysalis| year=1960 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Four Plays| publisher=Hill & Wang| year=1961}}
  • {{cite book| title=Miguel de Cervantes, Eight Interludes| place=New York, NY| year=1964| publisher=New American Library| isbn=0-460-87751-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Four plays| author=Pedro Calderón de la Barca| publisher=Hill and Wang| year=1961| isbn=0-8131-1409-8| url=https://archive.org/details/fourcomedies00cald}}
  • {{cite book| title=Selected Poems of Fernando Pessoa| publisher=Swallow Press| place=Chicago, IL| year=1971| isbn=978-0-8040-0520-3| url=https://archive.org/details/selectedpoemsbyf00pess}}
  • {{cite book| author=Federico García Lorca| title=Divan and Other Writings| publisher=Copper Beech Press | place=Providence, RI| year=1974| isbn=978-0-914278-14-6 }}
  • {{cite book| author=Lope de Vega| title=La Dorotea| publisher=Harvard University Press| place=Cambridge, MA| year=1985| isbn=978-0-674-50590-2 }}(With A. S. Trueblood)
  • {{cite book| author=Fernando Pessoa| title=The Keeper of Sheep| url=https://archive.org/details/keeperofsheepogu0000pess| url-access=registration| publisher=Sheep Meadow Press| place=Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY| year=1986| isbn=978-1-878818-45-4 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Poems of Fernando Pessoa| publisher=Ecco Press| place=New York, NY| year=1986| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klT3KN2V2JgC&dq=Edwin+Honig+poems+pessoa&pg=PP1| isbn=978-0-87286-342-2 }}
  • {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/poemsoffernandop0000pess| url-access=registration| title=Poems of Fernando Pessoa | publisher=City Lights Books| year=1998| isbn=978-0-87286-342-2 | others=Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown }}
  • {{cite book| title=Fernando Pessoa: Always Astonished (selected prose)| publisher=City Lights Books | place=San Francisco, CA| year=1988| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZYYXErWaB0C&q=Edwin+Honig| isbn=978-0-87286-228-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Unending Lightning: The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez| publisher=Sheep Meadow Press | place=Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY| year=1990| isbn=978-0-935296-86-0 }}
  • {{cite book| author=Federico García Lorca| title=Four Puppet Plays, Play without a Title, the Divan Poems, and Other Poems, Prose Poems, and Dramatic Pieces| url=https://archive.org/details/fourpuppetplaysp0000garc| url-access=registration| publisher=Sheep Meadow Press | place=Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY| year=1990| isbn=978-0-935296-94-5 }}
  • {{cite book| author=Pedro Calderón de la Barca| title=Six Plays| publisher=Fordham University Press | place=New York, NY| year=1993| isbn=978-1-882763-05-4 }}

=Criticism=

  • {{cite book| title=Conversations with Richard Wilbur | editor=Richard Wilbur, William Butts| chapter=A Conversation with Richard Wilbur| url=https://archive.org/details/conversationswit00wilb| url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/conversationswit00wilb/page/162 162] | quote=Edwin Honig. | publisher=University Press of Mississippi| year=1990| isbn=978-0-87805-425-1 }}
  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWO1IxMiilcC&q=Edwin+Honig| title=The poet's other voice | publisher=University of Massachusetts Press| year=1985| isbn=978-0-87023-477-4 }}
  • {{cite book | title=Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory | publisher=Northwestern University Press | year=1959 | isbn=978-0-87451-222-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/darkconceit00edwi }}

References

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External links

  • [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3247#bibliography "Edwin Honig (1919 - )", The Poetry Foundation]
  • [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Celestinesca/Numeros/1979/VOL%203/NUM%202/2_resena3.pdf The "Calisto and Melibea" of Edwin Honig, Joseph Snow, University of Georgia]
  • [http://www.projo.com/news/content/HONIG_OBITUARY_05-28-11_12OBDAT_v8.3042612.html Edwin Honig's obituary]
  • [https://archive.today/20130415140845/http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/docsoup/2012/10/alan-berliners-first-cousin-once-removed/%23.UOoxg44_9So Blog post on PBS.org on First Cousin Once Removed]

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