Poetry
A Gallery of Ghosts (University of New Orleans Press, 2008)
Davenport’s Version (Portals Press, 2003)
American Ghost/Americki Duh (bilingual, trans. by Biljana D. Obradovic, Cross-Cultural, 1999)
The Enemies of Leisure (Story Line, 1995) “Best Book of 1995” – Publishers Weekly, 1995-96 Critics Choice Award from the San Francisco Review of Books
Three Poems (Lestat Press, 1989)
The Burning of New Orleans (Amelia, 1988)
Charlemagne: A Song of Gestures (Plumbers Ink, 1983): winner of the Plumbers Ink Poetry Award
Translation
For the House of Torkom: Armenian prose poems of Hmayyag Shems
(co-trans. with Vahe Baladouni, Cross-Cultural, 1999)
Scholarship
Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness (UP of Florida, 1996) with Rosell Mamoli Zorzi and others
In Venice and in the Veneto with Ezra Pound (Supernova, 2007) with Vahe Baladouni
Hmayeak Shems: Armenian Poet of Pure Spirit (UP of America, 2010) Ed. with William Pratt
Ezra Pound: Ends and Beginnings (AMS P, 2011)