His poetry collections include the forthcoming Water / Music, as well as The View We’re Granted, co-winner of the 2013 Sheila Motton Best Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, and Augustine’s Vision, winner of the 2009 New American Press Chapbook Award.
Filkins has also translated several books of postwar German literature into English.
[1][2] The Journey, Panorama, and The Wall, the three novels Filkins translated, were written soon after the war, but were not published until the 1962, 1968, and 1988, respectively.
Filkins' translation of Panorama was listed as one of the best books of 2011 by The New Republic's editorial staff.
Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, was published by Oxford University Press in March 2019.