Bibliography

NOVELS:

Ultraviolet. New York: Catapult, 2018.
•Starred, boxed review in Publishers Weekly
•Included in Real Simple‘s roundup of The Best Books of 2018.
•Named a “2018 Fiction Must Read” by the Massachusetts Book Awards.

The Tree-Sitter. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
•Norton papberback edition, March 2007.
•Shortlisted for the PEN New England/L.L. Winship prize, 2006.

A Trick of Nature. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
•Ballantine Books paperback edition, October 2001 (Reader’s Circle Program).
•German edition (Aus heiterem Himmel) from Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, February 2002.

The Hunger Moon. New York: W. W. Norton.
•Starred review in Publishers Weekly.
•A Literary Guild selection.
•A summer ‘97 selection for the “Discover New Great New Writers” program in Barnes and Noble stores nationwide.
•Ballantine Books paperback edition , April 1999 (Reader’s Circle Program).
•German edition (Die Andere Seite des Mondes) from Argon Verlag, April 1999.

BOOKS OF POETRY:

Durable Goods. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1993.

Sea Level. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1990.

SHORT FICTION:

“Convention Center,” Harvard Review 48: (Dec 2015).

“Manger,” Pangyrus online (9/4/2015); in print Pangyrus 2.

“Pie,” Ploughshares Solo 3:1 (August 27, 2014).

“Your Best Yet,” Harvard Review 45: 92-108 (May 2014).

“Boys’ Choir.”  Carolina Quarterly 62.3 (winter 2012):  60-5.

“Ultraviolet.”  Mussoorie Writers (June 2012).

“Persephone at Boylston.” BostonNOW 1.5-1.11 (April 23-May 1, 2007):  serialized in seven installments.

POETRY IN PERIODICALS:

“Missionary, 1920,” “Went into a Bar,” “Celia,” “To Genda,” “Little Deaths,” “Calling Her.”  Re-Markings special number:  A World Assembly of Poets 16.4 (November 2017):  163-66.

“Letter to America.” Terrain.org (1.31.16).

“Watch.” The Cortland Review 73 (11/6/16).

“Division Street,” “Story,” “Rishikesh.”  Terrain. org (2/27/14).

“Found Haiku, Missing Beat.” Washington Square Review (winter/spring 2009):  26.

“Birds at Six O’Clock”; “From SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS”; “Reading Lesson at a Farm Workers’ Community School, Woodville, California, 1942.”  Kippis! 1:1 (winter 2009):  29-31.

“Honeymoon Snapshot: Diptych.” Boston College Magazine 66.4 (fall 2006): 61.

“Mysore Pantoum,” “Ballroom Dancing, A Vision,” “Photographing Debra.” Kestrel 18 (2005): 54-58.

“Alligator Country” (reprinted), “Backyard Soil, c. 1960,” “Renovation.” Salamander: Then and Now 10th Anniversary Issue 9.1-2 (2003): 134-8.

“Desert Botanical Garden.” Sou’wester 31.1 (fall 2002): 92.

“A Nickel Sun.” New England Review 23.2 (spring 2002): 145.

“Unreasonable Fears.” Boston College Magazine 62.2 (spring 2002): 5.

“Cruelty,” “Florida Wake.” Seattle Review 20.1 (fall 1998): 117-18.

“For Frances, Who Can’t Stop Dreaming of Danger, Even When the Children Are Safe at Home.” Poetry Northwest 38.4 (winter 1997-98): 40.

“Nicholas, Refusing to Sleep,” “Then, Nicholas.” Salamander 4.1 (spring 1996): 7-8.

“Love Poem.” The Madison Review 17.2 (fall 1995): 54.

“Milk/Love.” Harvard Review 9 (fall 1995): 88.

“The Oath of Happiness.” Boston College Magazine 54.4 (fall 1995): 14.

“Alligator Country,” “Elegy,” “This Distance.” Salamander 3.1 (winter 1995): 65-7.

“Not Talking About God in America.” Red Brick Review 1995: 14.

“Platia Talo,” Wifery.” Berkeley Poetry Review 27 (1993-94): 90-1.

“Hometown.” Boston College Magazine 52.3 (summer 1993): 25.

“Flagstaff.” Harvard Review 4 (spring 1993): 36-7.

“The Wreck of Days.” Indiana Review 16.1 (spring 1993): 186-90.

“Cafe.” Sou’wester 20.3 (winter 1993): 29.

“Farm Animals.” Christian Science Monitor 85.62 (25 February 1993): 16.

“The Beach.” Sojourner 18.1 (Sept. 1992): 37.

“Worry.” Sojourner 17.12 (Aug. 1992): 6B.

“Greek.” Shenandoah 42.2 (summer 1992): 85.

“Petty Crime.” Dominion Review 10 (spring 1992): 22.

“Woman with Distaff.” Iris 24 (fall-winter 1990): 54.

“Like.” The Boston Review 14.6 (Dec. 1989): 25.

“Elegy for Neil.” Southern Poetry Review 29.2 (fall 1989): 23.

“Debussy,” “There Was a Temporary Accident.” The American Poetry Review 17.2 (Mar.-Apr. 1988): 21.

“The Artist and His Model,” “The Bohemian Wedding,” “The Wound-up Girl Ice Skater.” Fine Madness 3.2 (fall 1986): 6-9.

“In Rovaniemi, Finland.” Poetry Northwest 27.1 (spring 1986): 11-12.

“Coyotes,” “Letters,” “Travelers.” The Seattle Review 9.1 (spring 1986): 79-82.

“Centralia Stop,” “Jackson County Census.” The Seattle Review 7.1 (spring 1984): 17-18.

“After ‘Charming,’” “The Sunbather,” “The Sunday Drunk.” Poetry 142.2 (May 1983): 90-3.

“Fossils,” “Leaving Garibaldi.” Poetry Northwest 23.4 (winter 1982-83): 39-41.

“Love in the Coal Mine,” “Scotch Coulee,” “Newspaper Pictures out of Poland,” “Widow Aunts.” Poetry Northwest 23.2 (summer 1982): 26-9.

ANTHOLOGIZED WORK:

“Pie.”  Ed. Ladette Randolph.  Ploughshares Solos Omnibus:  Volume 3.  Boston:  Ploughshares, 2015.  1-31.

“Coyotes,” “In Rovaniemi, Finland, Twenty-fifth Birthday,” “Night Fishing,” “The Beach,” “Father’s Day,” “Stubbornness,” “Durable Goods” (poems); “Persephone at Boylston” (story).  Finnish-North American Literature in English:  A Concise Anthology.  Lewiston, NY:  Edwin Mellen P, 2009.  531-51.

“Love in the Coal Mine.” Coal: A Poetry Anthology. Ashland, KY: Blair Mountain Press, 2006. 143.

“Worry,” “The Beach.” Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2004. 113-14.

“The Wound-up Girl Ice Skater,” “The Bohemian Wedding.” March Hares: The Best Poems from Fine Madness, 1982-2002. Seattle, WA: Fine Madness, 2002. 242-244.

“First Words.” The Fruitful Branch: 21 Brookline Authors on Literature, Libraries, Life. Brookline, MA: Brookline Library Foundation, 2002. 67.

“Scotch Coulee.” Red, White and a Paler Shade of Blue: Poems on the Finnish-American Experience. Rhinelander, WI: Tamarack Publishing Co., 1996. 26-27.

“The Regulars,” “Wifery.” For a Living: The Poetry of Work (companion anthology to Working Classics). Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1995. 256-8.

“Love in the Coal Mine.” Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1990. 160.

“The Sunday Drunk.” Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor Book Co., 1984. 301.

NONFICTION ESSAYS:

“The Cookie Fortress,” in “Connections,” Globe Magazine, Nov. 19, 2023:  34; and online. 

“My Barbie, my self,” The Boston Globe July 30, 2023, and online.

“Boston: Dispatches from a Pandemic,” Harvard Review, Nov. 20, 2020, online.

“Winnowing,” in “Connections,” Globe Magazine, Jan. 6, 2019:  31; and online.

“The Caretaker of the Chin Hairs,” in “Ties,” New York Times, Nov. 23, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/well/family/mother-daughter-elderly-dementia-end-of-life.html

“For parents, gridiron isn’t just fun and games.” The Boston Globe Oct. 31, 2009:  A11.

“Prospects.” Boston College Magazine 68:3 (Summer 2008):  50-1.

“Fellow Workers. . . .” The Seattle Times June 27, 2005: B5.

“A Thank-You Note.” Child February 2000: 104.

“Love Among the Ruins.” Child February 1999: 111-12.

“Days Like These.” Child August 1998: 19.

“Milestones.” Child May 1998: 119.

“When Nick Met Henry.” Child Dec.-Jan. 1998: 151-2.

“He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Baby.” New York Times Magazine Jan. 12, 1997: 54.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:

“The Liberty Committee:  Finns, Sedition, and Montana Vigilantes during World War I.”  Journal of Finnish Studies 13:1 (summer 2009):  67-74.

“Strange Cities.” Harvard Review 13 (fall 1997): 47-50. A special issue devoted to the poetry of Charles Simic.

“Birth Metaphors in Three American Women Poets.” Commonwealth and American Women’s Discourse: Essays in Criticism. Ed. A. L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling Press, 1996. 268-277.

“Disquieting Muses: The Politics/Poetics of Looking.” Harvard Review 7 (fall 1994): 125-8.

“‘Without Relation’: Family and Freedom in the Poetry of Louise Glück.” The Mid-American Review 14.2 (1994): 88-109.

“Disquieting Muses: Mnemosyne.” Harvard Review 5 (fall 1993): 20-2.

“Flowery Codes: Sandra McPherson’s Poetics of Gender and Naturalism.” Denver Quarterly 28.2 (fall 1993): 86-92 .

“On Reclaiming the Universal.” River City 13.2 (spring 1993): 118-124. Reprinted in Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition. Ed. Sharon Bryan. NY: W. W. Norton, 1993. 118-124.

“Disquieting Muses: Sylvia Plath and the Problem of Relation.” Harvard Review 4 (spring 1993): 32-5.

“Please Don’t Call it the New Confessionalism.” Harvard Review 2 (fall 1992): 164-66.

“Talking to Our Father: The Political and Mythical Appropriations of Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds.” The American Poetry Review 18.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1989): 35-41.