Bibliography
Poetry
- Birds Fly through Us, Omnidawn (scheduled 2007)
- Matter, University of Iowa Press (2004)
- Airs, Waters, Places, University of Iowa Press (2001)
- Wake, University of Iowa Press (1999)
- Massacre of the Innocents, University of Iowa Press, 1995
- The Erotic Light of Gardens, Wesleyan University Press, 1989
- The Language Student, Louisiana State University Press, 1986
- White Monkeys, University of Georgia Press, 1981
- The Difference between Night and Day, Yale University Press, 1978.
Prose
- American Notes & Letters (2001): “Enhanced and Instrumentalized Looking: Poetry and Visual Art”
- Boston Review (June-July 1996): Jorie Graham’s Dream of the Unified Field; (January 1999): Three First-books (Truitt, Ramsdell, Powell); (January 2002): Darkling (Anna Rabinowitz); (Sept-Oct 2002): Jorie Graham’s Never (Summer 2003);
- Denver Quarterly, reviews of: Richard Howard, John Williams, Robert Penn Warren, Derek Walcott, James Schuyler, Franz Kafka, Frank O’Hara, Susan Howe, John Ashbery, James Tate, Jorie Graham, Fairfield Porter; on prose poetry, on the elegy, others;
- Georgia Law Review (Fall 1984): “Language, Law, and Forms of Failure”;
- Georgia Review (Winter 1980): “Mattie Lou O’Kelley: American Folk Artist,” with Linda Ramke.
- The Ohio Review, various on: literary mentors, verse forms, and on Louis Simpson;
- West Branch (Spring 2002 ) “A Community of Books by Women” (review of five recent women poets).
