• Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, 2004-2005
• Aiken Taylor Award for Poetry, 2003
• Distinguished Alumni Award, New York University Graduate Arts and Sciences, 2003
• Delmore Schwartz Award for Poetry, 1996.
• Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts, 1995.

Poetry

• "American Solitude", Poetry Foundation
• "Balm in Gilead", Poetry Foundation
• "Waves", Verse Daily

• For That Day Only Sheep Meadow Press (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY), 1994.
• Hemispheres Sheep Meadow Press (New York, NY), 1984.
• Burn Down the Icons. Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1976.

Editor

Criticism

Translator

• T. Carmi, At the Stone of Losses (poems), University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1983.

Anthologies

• The Best American Poetry 1995, edited by Richard Howard
• The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1998, edited by Harold Bloom,
• Pushcart Prizes 21 and 23.