He has published eight books of poetry: Poemas no recogidos en libro (1981) Fierro curvo (1985), Castillo de popa (1988 and 1991), El libro de las auroras boreales (1995), Señora de la noche (1998), El zorro y la luna (1999), Sakra Boccata (2006 and 2007), and Las flores del mall (2009). Currently, he is Professor of Latin American Literature and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University. He is also President of the International Association of Peruvianists since 1996 and Director of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, one of the most important journals in Latin American literary criticism, since 2010.