Awards and Honors
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974.
- Bernard Conner Prize, The Paris Review, 1983.
- Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Award, for Tar, 1983.
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1985 and 1993.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, for Flesh and Blood, 1987.
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, for Flesh and Blood, 1987.
- Jerome Shestack Prize, The American Poetry Review, 1988, 1996.
- Morton Dauwen Zabel Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1989.
- Woodrow Wilson-Lila Wallace Fellow, 1992-93.
- Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Award, for A Dream of Mind, 1992.
- Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, 1993.
- Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, Poetry, 1993.
- Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Award, for The Vigil, 1997.
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, for The Vigil, 1997.
- PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, 1998.
- Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, 1998.
- Finalist, National Book Award, for Repair, 1999.
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, 1999
- Weathertop Poetry Award for Repair, 2000.
- Maurice English Award for Repair, 2000.
- Los Angeles Times Book Award for Repair, 2000.
- Pulitzer Prize, for Repair, 2000.
- Pen/Albrand Memoir Award, for Misgivings, 2001.
- National Book Award, for The Singing, 2003.
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 2005.
- Milton Kessler Poetry Prize, Binghamton University, 2012.
- Jewish Book Prize, 2012.
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