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- What Do We Know. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo, 2002.
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- Why I Wake Early: New Poems. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
- Blue Iris: Poems and Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
- Long Life: Essays and Other Writings. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2004.
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