• Primogeniture, poets.org
• Overnight, Ploughshares, Winter 1997-98
• Man at the Piano, Ploughshares, Winter 1997-98
• In a New Climate, Ploughshares, Winter 1984

Books

Using images that sometimes startle the reader, this 30-year-old poet reevaluates her own "land" through travel (London, Florence) and close observations. Agoos pays careful attention to a place's ghoststhe impressive lead poem traces in 10 stanzas the history of a farm through its inhabitants and the weather. She reveals an adept juggling of rhythms"delighted, self-invited, second-sighted" for end-rhymes; occasional brilliant reversals"Oh my darling, look: how life/ imitates art in the afternoon"; and a tuning of the senses, as in "shy grey as those feathers." There is a sure presence and considerable skill here, as one would expect from the latest winner of Yale's "Younger Poet" series.

• Language and Space in Julie Agoos Poetics