In 2014 he published an opinion piece in the Sunday Magazine of The New York Times about accidentally killing his brother in a hunting accident in response to the fatal shooting with an Uzi machine gun of a gun instructor by a 9 year old in Arizona.[3]
Selected works
Poetry
Burning the Empty Nests (Harper & Row, 1973)
Gathering the Bones Together (Harper & Row, 1975)
The Red House (Harper & Row, 1980)
We Must Make a Kingdom of It (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)
New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1988)
City of Salt (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995)