Accomplishments

• He has been a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in poetry, a Ford Foundation fellow, a Guggenheim Foundation fellow, a four-time winner of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Academy of American Poets fellow. In 1980 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his selected poems, and in 1992 he was a recipient of the Bollingen prize. He is a recipient in 1996 of a Lannan Award for Poetry.
• His 1998 book on writers & writing, Oblivion, has been praised for its subtlety, originality, and tact.