He is the author of ten books of poems including Resonance ( 2010) (Eric Hoffer Award), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003). He has also published two books of translations, Last Voyage: The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli from Italian (2010) and Alexandar Persolja's Journey of the Sun from Slovene (2008). He is also the author of two critical books, Acts of Mind: Conversations with American Poets (Choice Award) and Dismantling Time in Contemporary Poetry (Agee Award Winner), and has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry, as well as the journal Poetry Miscellany. His work has been translated into fifteen languages and has appeared in The Best American Poems, among other collections.

Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press, 2014), Resonance (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2010), Half-Lives (Autumn House Press, 2004), Unauthorized Autobiography: new and selected Poems (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), Heartwall (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000), Heart's Bridge (Aureole Press, 1999), Alive All Day (Cleveland State University Press, 1992), Worlds Apart (University of Alabama Press, 1989), Dismantling Time (University of Alabama Press, 1987)

5 Pushcart Publications (Pushcart Press, 2004)

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