 She published her first collection of poems, "Giardino", in 1943, but she waited until 1968 to publish her second poetry book.This unusually long period between the two publications was intentional, the result of a dissatisfaction with the rigidity of the printed word and its inability to fully represent the open and multifaceted experiences from which the poems emerged.In 1963 she published her first work as an art critic, a monographic study on the Lithuanian-born American artist Ben Shahn.