PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Into It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2005).
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, paperback).
Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2005).
Lawyerland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, paperback).
(Plume Penguin, 1998, paperback).
(Im Land der Advokaten (Dumont, 1999, German translation by Martina Tichy).
Before Our Eyes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993).
(The Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994, paperback).
Curriculum Vitae (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988).
Shouting at No One (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983).
REPORT
Report to the Governor: Analysis of Coverage of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Under the Michigan Workers' Compensation Disability Act (State of Michigan, 1985).
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND OTHER PROSE WRITINGS (SINCE 1990)
Interview, “Pulling the Words from the Ruins,” Downtown Express, Nov. 4-10, 2005 (interviewed by Charles Graeber).
"Timespace," in The Future Dictionary of America (McSweeney's Books, 2004).
"Ambition and Greatness: An Exchange," Poetry, May 2005.
"The Music Is: The Deep Roots of Detroit R&B," in Best Music Writing 2003: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock. Pop, Jazz, Country & More (Da Capo Press, 2003).
"Tous Les Grands Problemes Viennent de la Rue," in Siecle 21: Literature and Societe, Autumn 2002 (translation from English into French by Catherine Pierre of excerpt from "All Great Problems Come From the Streets").
“The Subject and Object of Law,” 67 Brooklyn Law Review 1026 (2002).
"Working Rules for Lawyerland," 101 Columbia Law Review 1793 (2001).
"A Year After the Impeachment Trial of the President," in Aftermath: Conversations on the Clinton Scandal (New York University Press, 2001).
"The Music Is: The Deep Roots of Detroit R & B," Tin House, Winter 2001.
"Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)," American Poet, Winter 2000-2001.
"A poetry reading, or poetry readings, that I remember most. . . ," in KGB Bar Book of Poems (Perennial/Harper Collins, 2000).
"Smokey Robinson's High Tenor Voice," Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2000.
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" The Nation, May 8, 2000 (essay review of Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates).
"Caught in Your Own Net: Microsoft and the Accelerated Market," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Editorial and Opinion page, in German translation, February 15, 2000.
"Morally Depraved, Justice in America: Should a Child Who Murders Be Punished as an Adult?," Suddeutsche Zeitung, Editorial and Opinion page, in German translation, Jan. 24, 2000.
"On Kronman's 'Rhetoric,'" 67 University of Cincinnati Law Review 719 (1999).
"New Poetics (Sans Aristotle)," The Nation, Dec. 13, 1999 (essay review of Lives of the Poets, by Michael Schmidt).
"Enzensberger's Kiosk," introduction to The Selected Poems of Hans Magnus Enzensberger (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1999).
"What is Behind His Writing" and "Some Ways That His Poems May Be Read," in Contemporary Authors (Gale, 1999).
"Lawyerland," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitgung, Editorial and Opinion Page, in German translation, September 12, 1998.
"Enzensberger's Kiosk," Jacket, September 1998 (essay review of Kiosk, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger).
“Zen Records,” The Nation, December 27, 1997 (essay review of Selected Poems, by Harvey Shapiro).
"Aspects of Kees," Verse, Summer 1997 (essay on the poetry of Weldon Kees).
"Jeremiah and Corinthians," in Communion: Contemporary Writers Reveal the Bible in Their Lives (Anchor Books, 1996).
"Reflections on Law and Literature (Imaginary Interview)," 59 Saskatchewan Law Review 417 (1995).
"A Formal Life: Marilyn Hacker's Deep Structure," Voice Literary Supplement, February 1995 (essay review of Selected Poems (1965-1995) and Winter Numbers, by Marilyn Hacker).
"Any and All," in For a Living: The Poetry of Work (University of Illinois Press, 1995).
"The Communion of Saints," in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994).
"Journeys to Love," The Kenyon Review, Winter 1994 (essay review of Selected Poems, by Julia Randall, and Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991, by Hayden Carruth).
"Pure Song," American Book Review, December 1993-January 1994 (essay review of People Live, They Have Lives, by Hugh Seidman).
"Theories of Poetry, Theories of Law," 46 Vanderbilt Law Review 1227 (1993).
"Constitutional Conjuring," 27 Valparaiso University Law Review 585 (1993).
"The Lawyer's Bookshelf," New York Law Journal, March 29, 1993 (essay review of Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune, by David Margolick) .
"Half Angel, Half Human," American Book Review, Feb.-Mar. 1993 (essay review of Hotel Madden Poems, by Paul Pines, and Target Populations, by Mark Kaminsky).
"The Real Thing," The Nation, April 20, 1992 (essay review of Flow Chart, by John Ashbery, and An Atlas of the Difficult World, by Adrienne Rich).
"The Morning of the Poem," Poetry East, Fall 1992 (essay on the poetry of James Schuyler).
"Some Sort of Chronicler I Am," in Best American Poetry 1992 (Charles Scribner's Sons and Collier Books, 1992).
"The Art of Poetry, XLIV: Yehuda Amichai," The Paris Review, Spring 1992 (introduction and interview of Yehuda Amichai).
"Living in Time and Powers of Congress," Verse, Winter/Spring 1991-1992 (essay review of Living in Time, by Rachel Hadas, and Powers of Congress, by Alice Fulton).
"War Afterthoughts," Hungry Mind Review, May 1991.
"Donald Hall's Old and New Poems," Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1991.
“Union Dues," The Nation, September 16, 1991 (essay review of Which Side Our You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back, by Thomas Geoghegan).
"A Poet Urged By Words and A Sense of the Past," Forward, June 7, 1991 (essay review of Operation Memory, by David Lehman).
"Silk's Polyglot Poetry," Forward, October 19, 1990, and The Jerusalem Post, February 22, 1991 (essay review of Catwalk and Overpass, by Dennis Silk).
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"Can't Forget the Motor City," The Nation, December 17, 1990 (essay review of Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit, by Ze'ev Chafets).
"War of the Worlds," The Nation, Sept. 24, 1990 (essay review of Poems 1959-1979 and These Days, by Frederick Seidel).
"Men of Irony," The Village Voice, March 20, 1990 (essay review, of V. and Other Poems, by Tony Harrison, and K.S. In Lakeland: New and Selected Poems, by Michael Hofmann).
POEMS (SINCE 1990)
"Il y a un Dieu qui nous hait tant," translation of "There is a God Who Hates Us So Much," by Catherine Pierre-Bon, Siecle 21, Spring/Summer 2007.
“Some Sort of Chronicler I Am,“ in The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006) (chosen and edited by David Lehman).
“In It, Into It, Inside It, Down In,” “Inclined to Speak, “ On That Side,” “Why Not Say What Happens?,” “That Too,” “The Game Changed,” “Once Again,” The Legal Studies Forum, vol. XXX, nos. 1 & 2, 2006.
“Unyieldingly Present,” “In a Mood,” Subtropics, Winter/Spring 2006.
“Unyieldingly Present,” in The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (An Anthology of Work by Former Hopwood Winners at the University of Michigan) (University of Michigan Press, 2006) (edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp and Michael Barrett).
“Why Not Say What Happens?” (sections VI and VII), Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, September 11, 2005.
“An Awful Lot Was Happening,” in Writing Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology (University of Michigan Press, 2005).
"History for Another Time," The Kenyon Review, Fall 2005.
"In It, Into it, Inside It, Down In," "What Do You Mean, What?", "The Game Changed," "Once Again," TriQuarterly, Fall 2005.
"Unyieldingly Present," Siecle 21, Autumn 2005 (translated into French by Catherine Pierre).
"On That Side," "The Bronze-Green Gold-Green Foreground," "The Pattern-Parallel Map or Graph," Jacket, October 2005.
"Metamorphoses (after Ovid)," Pequod, Fall 2005.
"That Too," Poetry, June 2005.
"I Note in a Notebook," Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2005.
"Woodward Avenue," Ontario Review, Winter 2005.
"Why Not Say What Happens," Commonweal (85th Special Anniversary Issue), Nov. 5, 2004.
"Inclined to Speak," Poetry, November 2004.
"Before Our Eyes" and "Just That," in French translation by Catherine Pierre ("Sous Nos Yeux" and "Rien Que Ca"), Europe: Revue Litteraire Mensuelle: Poetes De Etats-Unis, October 2004.
"Curriculum Vitae," "This Is How It Happens," "An Awful Lot Was Happening," "A Flake of Light Moved," "Sentimental Education," "Just That," The Legal Studies Forum, vol. XXVIII, Nos. 1 & 2 (2004).
"Stop Me if I've Told You," Jacket, Spring 2003.
"Curriculum Vitae," in Abandoned Automobile: Detroit City Poetry (Wayne State University Press, 2001).
"In the Age of Postcapitalism," in New York Poems (Everyman Library, Random House, Inc., 2002).
"When One Is Feeling One's Way," in KGB Bar Book of Poems (Perennial/Harper Collins, 2000).
“In the Tenth Year of War, in "You Only Exist Inside Me," and "There I Am Again," in Arab Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2000).
"Sand Nigger," in Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades (Milkweed Editions, 2000).
"Some Temporal and Spatial Themes," Joe, Winter 1999/2000.
"Any and All," in A Contracts Anthology Co. (Anderson Publishing 1995).
"You Only Exist Inside Me,” in Eternal Light: Grandparent Poems (Harcourt Brace, New York 1995).
"Any and All," in For a Living: The Poetry of Work (University of Illinois Press, 1995).
"Pyreneus and the Muses," in After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995; Faber and Faber, 1994).
"Before Going Back," in Articulations: Poems About Illness and the Body (University of Iowa Press, 1994).
"Driving Again," in Drive, They Said; Poems About Americans and Their Cars (Milkweed Editions, 1994).
"Do What You Can," "Sand Nigger," "There I Am Again," in Walk on the Wild Side: Contemporary American Urban Poetry (Charles Scribner's Sons and Collier Books, New York, 1994).
"Then," "Not Yet," "Sand Nigger," in Violence and Our Country (University of Alabama Press, 1994).
“Before Our Eyes,” “Whose Performance Am I Watching,” Verse, Summer 1993.
"A Flake of Light Moved," Boston Phoenix, July 1993.
"Lines Imagined Translated Into a Foreign Language," Ontario Review, Spring-Summer 1993.
"Out of the Blue," "Under a Spell," "In a Fit of My Own Vividness," "Over Darkening Gold," Pequod, Spring 1993.
"Then," "Do What You Can," "Curriculum Vitae," "In the Age of Postcapitalism," "That's All," in The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1993).
"Sentimental Education," Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 1992.
“A Particular Examination of Conscience, " Boulevard, Fall 1992.
"About This," Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 1992.
"Some Sort of Chronicler I Am," in Best American Poetry 1992 (Charles Scribner's Sons and Collier Books, 1992).
"Driving Again," in How We Live Now: Contemporary Multicultural Literature (St. Martin's Press, 1992).
"Mama Remembers," in First Light: Mother & Son Poems, A Twentieth Century American Selection (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992).
"An Awful Lot Was Happening," in A Gathering of Poets (The Kent State University Press, 1992).
"Sand Nigger," in Seasonal Perfo:rmances: A Michigan Quarterly Review Reader (University of Michigan Press, 1991).
"Brooding," "Material Facts," and "Admissions Against Interest," Ploughshares, Winter-Spring 1991-92.
"Some Sort of Chronicler I Am" and "Generation," The Kenyon Review (Fall 1991).
"I Had No More to Say," "Between Us," "Fog," "Nothing and No One and Nowhere to Go," "In the Tenth Year of War," "Is It You?" in Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life (University of Illinois Press, 1990).
LECTURES, TALKS, READINGS (SINCE 1995)
Poetry reading, "Lubnan: A Literary Reading," Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York December 8, 2007 (with Miriam Said, Etel Adnan, and Patricia Sarafian Ward) (followed by discussion).
Poetry reading, Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City, March 25, 2007 (with Marie Ponsot and Marilyn Hacker).
Talk, "The Poet and Lawyer: The Example of Wallace Stevens," The Eleventh Annual Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, sponsored by The Hartford Friends of Wallace Stevens, Hartford Public Library, October 7, 2006 (from prepared text, followed by panel discussion).
Poetry reading, “A Year in Literature Festival, “ Magdalene College, Cambridge University, June 10, 2006 (with Michael Hofmann).
Talk and reading, New York County Lawyers Association, April 2006, upon receiving the NYCLA Law and Literature Award (followed by discussion).
Reading from Voices from Chernobyl: the Oral History of Nuclear Disaster, by Svetlan Alexievitch (translated by Keith Gessen), PEN World Voices Festival, Housing Works Used Books Café (New York City), April 26, 2006 (co-sponsored by the National Book Critics Circle, with Philip Gourevitch, Gary Shteyngart, Ken Kalfus, Julie Otsuka, Jim Shepard, Martha Cooley, Tom Bissell, and Lynne Tillman) (introduced by John Freeman).
Poetry reading, University of Michigan, Dearborn, April 20, 2006 (introduced by Sidney M. Bolkosky).
Poetry reading and discussion, WFMU-FM (91.1, Jersey City), “The Speakeasy,” April 17, 2006 (hosted by Dorian Devine).
Poetry reading and discussion, Department of English, St. John’s University, April 11, 2006 (introduced by John Lowney).
Poetry reading and discussion, Visiting Writer, Lowell Humanities Series, Boston College, March 30, 2006 (introduced by Paul Mariani).
“Readings from the Poetry of Nonviolence,” The Catholic Worker (New York City), March 24, 2006 (readings from work by Etel Adnan, Daniel Berrigan and Thomas Merton).
Poetry reading, St. John’s University School of Law, March 22, 2006, sponsored by the Student Bar Association.
Poetry reading and discussion, WBAI-FM (99.5, Pacifica Radio, New York City), “Tahrir,” March 7, 2006 (hosted by Barbara Nimri Azziz).
Poetry reading, KGB Bar (New York City), with Jennifer Michael Hecht, hosted by Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder, March 6, 2006 (introduced by Matthew Zapruder).
Poetry reading and discussion, Visiting Writer, Marymount Manhattan College, February 23, 2006.
Poetry reading and discussion, “Contemporary Poetry: Conversations with Poets” Series, Adelphi University, February 14, 2006 (introduced by Judy Baumel).