 He was made a Chevalier dans l’ordre des palmes académiques in 1985, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, and received an Annual Award in Letters from the American Academy of Arts in Letters in 2017, while his forthcoming "Late Baudelaire" (Yale UP, 2020) has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship for Translation.Among many honors, he received the PEN/Book-of the Month Translation Prize in 2000 for his "Selected Writings of Gérard de Nerval" and his translation of Maurice Scève’s "Emblems of Desire" was shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Prize and the PEN Poetry Translation Prize in 2003.He was twice shortlisted for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, in 2007 for "Stroke by Stroke" (by Henri Michaux) and then in 2010 for "The Salt Smugglers" (Gérard de Nerval), while his translations of Eugène Guillevic's "Geometries" was shortlisted for the Three Percent Poetry Translation Prize in 2012.