Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer

Overview

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 Alzheimer's disease. Among many other honors, Honig received honorary ""knighthoods"" from Spain and Portugal for his seminal translations of Lorca, Calderón, and Pessoa that awakened English-speaking 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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 2, 2010

Original language

English

Director

Alan Berliner

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt4706536