Honors and Awards
- 1980 Satan Says inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award.
- 1984 The Dead and the Living Lamont Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- 1992 The Father, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award.
- 2009 One secret Thing, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize
- 2012 T S Eliot Prize, Stag's Leap
- 2013 Pulitzer Prize, Stag's Leap
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