Books: Surface Impressions (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press), Black Box (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press), 1999 The Thread, New and Selected Poems (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1998), Thanksgiving Over the Wate (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, l992, 1994), Man in the Open Air (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, l988), Riding to Greylock (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, l983), The Raveling of the Novel, Studies in Romantic Fiction (New York: Arno Press, l980), Roofs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., l97l), Stresses in the Peaceable Kingdom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., l967).

Work published in Agenda, Agni, The Atlantic, APR, Boulevard, Chelsea, Grand St, Harvard Mag., Harpers, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, New York Times, Poetry, Salmagundi; Hudson, New England, Michigan Quarterly, Paris, Partisan, Southwest, Virginia Quarterly, Western Humanities, Yale Reviews; others. Anthologies A Controversy of Poets, New Yorker Book of Poems, New York Times Book of Verse, Seasonal Perfomances, Poets for Life: Poets Respond to AIDS; A Good Man, Poems About Fathers; Berkshire Reader; AIDS Quilt Songbook; Best American Poetry 1995, 1998; Norton Treasury of World Poetry; Bright Pages; others. Awards & Residencies Bellagio Study Center, NEA Fellow, Fulbright Lectureship, Dexter Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship; Phi Beta Kappa Poet, Brown University; Vermont Council on Arts Fellowships; Blue Mountain Center residencies, Mac- Dowell residencies, Yaddo residencies; NEA Poet in residence, Y Poetry Center, Philadelphia; Academy of American Poets Prize others.