Her works include The Throne of Labdacus, Supernatural Love: Selected Poems, 1977-1992 (2000), and A Gilded Lapse of Time (1992). She has received numerous awards, including the Rome Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation in Poetry, a 1998 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and a visiting fellowship from St. Catherine's College at Oxford University. She has been commissioned to write a poem related to the humanities scholar year theme for a special event in April 2000 at the Getty Center.