Translating Edwin Honig A Poets Alzheimer

Alan Berliner has been chronicling the final years of his friend cousin and former mentor Edwin Honig distinguished poet translator critic and teacher into the depths of Alzheimers disease Among many other honors Honig received honorary knighthoods from Spain and Portugal for his seminal translations of Lorca Calderón and Pessoa that awakened Englishspeaking readers to the work of these literary giants This suite of six short films reveals a poet and wordsmith who may have lost his memory and his command of language but still retains his sense of rhythm rhyme and sublime musicality And through it all his dignity