He was, between 1999 and 2002, director of INEPAC, Institute of the Cultural Heritage of Rio de Janeiro. He is member of PEN Club of Brazil.
As escadas da torre (The stairs of the tower), 1984
Poemas gregos (Greek poems), 1985
Livro de haicais (Book of haikais), 1989
A decomposição de J. S. Bach (The decomposition of J. S. Bach), 1989
Lucernário (Lucernarium), 1993
Grandes poemas do Romantismo brasileiro (Great poems of the brazilian Romanticism), 1994
A via estreita (The narrow way), 1995 - Alphonsus de Guimaraens Prize, by the National Library, and APCA Prize
A juventude dos deuses (The youngness of the gods), 1996
Entusiasmo (Enthusiasm), 1997
Poemas reunidos (Collected poems), 1998 - Fernando Pessoa Prize
Em sonho (In dream), 1999
Antologia da poesia portuguesa contemporânea, um panorama, (Anthology of the contemporary Portuguese poetry, a survey), with Alberto da Costa e Silva, 1999
Os resistentes (The insurgents), 2001
Gamboa (2002), in the collection Cantos do Rio (Places of Rio)
O patrimônio construído (The building heritage), 2002, with Augusto Carlos da Silva Teles and Lauro Cavalcanti – Jabuti Prize
La poésie romantique brésilienne, 2002
Glauber Rocha, mais fortes são os poderes do povo! (Glauber Rocha, strongest are the powers of the people!), 2003
O Nordeste e a epopeia nacional (The Northeast and the national epic), 2006 – Aula Magna at the Rio Grande do Norte's University
Uma história da poesia brasileira (A history of Brazilian poetry), 2007[8]
As desaparições (The disappearances), 2009
Sergio Telles, caminhos da cor (Sergio Telles, the paths of colour), 2009
João Tarcísio Bueno, o herói de Abetaia (João Tarcísio Bueno, the hero of Abetaia), 2010
Lixo extraordinário (Waste Land), with Vik Muniz, 2010
O universo de Francisco Brennand ( The universe of Francisco Brennand), 2011
Machado, Euclides & outros monstros (Machado, Euclides & other monsters), 2012
Cinco séculos de poesia: poemas traduzidos (Five centuries of Poetry: translated poems), 2013
São Luís, 400 anos, Patrimônio da Humanidade (São Luís, 400 years, Humanity Heritage), 2013
Poesia completa (Complete poems), 2013
Palácios da Borracha, arquitetura da Belle Époque amazônica (The rubber palaces, archicteture from the Amazonian Belle Époque), 2014
Os monumentos do Rio de Janeiro, inventário 2015 (The Rio de Janeiro monuments, 2015 inventory), 2015
Alcoofilia, 5.000 anos de declarações de amor à bebida ('Alcohophilia, 5,000 years of love declarations to liquor), 2015
Rio Belle Époque, álbum de imagens (Río Belle Époque, pictorial album), 2015
Anamnese (Anamnese), 2016
Desaparições (Disappearances), a Portuguese anthology
O poste (The stake), drama in two acts, 2018.
Les résistants, full French translation of the poem, by Didier Lamaison, in Courage! Dix variations sur le courage et un chant de résistance. (2020)
Decálogo indigno para os mortos de 2020 (Unworthy decalogue for the dead of 2020, poems about coronavirus pandemic), 2020
O Sono dos Humildes (The sleep of the humble, poems), 2021 - Candango Literature Prize and the National Library's Alphonsus de Guimaraens Prize
A escravidão na poesia brasileira: Do século XVII ao XXI (Slavery in BrazilianPpoetry: From the 17th to the 21st Century, anthology of poems about slavery in Brazil), 2022
A noite assediada (The haunted night, poems in prose), 2022
Rio de Janeiro en couleurs et en relief: À Travers Les Photos Du Voyage En Amerique Du Sud D'Albert Kahn (Rio de Janeiro in color and relief: Through Photos from Albert Kahn's South American Trip, French edition), 2022, with Delphine Allannic, Laurent Vidal and Mélanie Moreau
Poesia completa e traduzida (Complete original and translated poems), 2023
Bibliografia crítica da Lapa (Critical bibliography of Lapa), 2023
Cândido Torres Guimarães: Um combatente brasileiro na Primeira Grande Guerra (Cândido Torres Guimarães: A Brazilian fighter in the First World War), 2023.
