• 1991 MacArthur Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• Juniper Prize
• two Pushcart Prizes.

• "Without Regret", Poetry Foundation
• "What loves, takes away", Poetry (September 2008)
• "The Messenger", Poetry Foundation
• "The Last Man", Poetry Foundation
• "The Girl with Bees in Her Hair", Poetry Foundation
• "Reading the Bible Backwards", Poetry Foundation
• "Magnificat", Poetry (August 2004)
• "Wreck" and "rise above", Poetry (January 2007)
• "Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s", Poetry Foundation
• "Last Self-Portrait, as Rembrandt, for Instance"; "Musical Chairs"; "Unstitch the Universe"; "Guardian"; "Lyrics for a Virtual Folk Song "; "Multiple Image, Retro-Girlhood '40s Style"; "No High Ground"; "Attic Light"; "Winter Conception"; "Daphne Planet as Urn"; "Like Warmed, Vague Stars", The Drunken Boat

• Maya (poems), University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1979.
• Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984. ISBN 9780226900254
• The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) ISBN 9781556592034
• Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 9780226900322

Anthologies

Translations

Non-fiction

• "Poetry and the Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?", Poetry Foundation, 3.2.06

• Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.