He is author of the poetry collections Words Before the Articulate: New and Selected Poems, Gnostic Blessing, Exiles: Ends, and of an essay collection, A Flicker at the Edge of Things: Essays on Poetics 1987–97. He is coeditor of An Anthology of New American Poets and Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. His poetry has appeared in the following publications, Trafika, First Intensity, Agni, The Five Fingers Review, and The Denver Quarterly, among others. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Arts-Link Collaborative grant for exchange with Russian poets.