Robert Mezey is the recipient of awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, PEN, the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, and the NEA, among other distinctions.His books include The Lovermaker, A Book of Dying, White Blossoms, The Door Standing Open, Small Song, Couplets, Selected Translations, Evening Wind, and Collected Poems 1952 -1999 .