Poetry

• Workbook (1988)
• Fevers & Tides (1989)
• Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book (Trinity University Press, 2009).

Nonfiction

• The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer (1994)
• The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee (1995)
• Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain (2004)
• Cultural Diplomacy: The Linchpin of Public Diplomacy, Report of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State (2005)
• The Tree of the Doves (2010)

Translation

• The City and the Child, poems by Ale? Debeljak (1999)
• Because of the Rain: A Selection of Korean Zen Poems (2006)
• Even Birds Leave the World: Selected Poems of Ji-woo Hwang (2006)
• Scale and Stairs: Selected Poems of Heeduk Ra (2009)

Collections and anthologies

• What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon (editor) (1995)
• The Way to the Salt Marsh: A John Hay Reader (editor) (1998)

Translated works

• Christopher Merrill: Sajak sajak (Poems), translated into Malay (2006)
• Why the Grass Whispered Again: Selected Poems, translated into Arabic (2007)

• Sherman Brown Neff Fellowship, University of Utah (1986—1987)
• John Ciardi Fellow in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (1989)
• Pushcart Prize XV in Poetry (1990)
• Editors’ Award in Poetry, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose (1990)
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in Poetry (1991)
• Readers’ Choice Award in Poetry, Prairie Schooner (1992)
• The Academy of American Poets Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award (1993)
• Translation Award, Slovenian Ministry of Culture (1997)
• Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems by Toma? ?alamun (editor)) (1997)
• Writers Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina Annual Literary Award, The Bosnian Stecak (2001)
• Translation Awards, Korean Literature Translation Institute (2003, 2004, 2006)
• Kostas Kyriazis Foundation Honorary International Literary Prize (2005)
• Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Ministry of Culture and Communications (2006)