Poetry

What a Kingdom It Was. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.

Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.

Body Rags. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

First Poems 1946-1954. Mt. Horeb, Wis.: Perishable Press, 1970.

The Book of Nightmares. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1971.

The Shoes of Wandering. Mt. Horeb, Wis.: Perishable Press, 1970.

The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems 1946-1964. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

Three Poems. New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1976.

Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Selected Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

The Past. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone. New York: Knopf, 1990

Prose

Black Light. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Rev. ed. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981. Novel.

Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1978.

How the Alligator Missed Breakfast. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Children's book.

Translations

Bitter Victory, by Rene Hardy. New York: Doubleday, 1956. Novel. 

The Poems of François Villon. New York: New American Library, 1965. Rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

On the Motion and Immobility Of Douve, by Yves Bonnefoy. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1968. Poems.

Lackawanna Elegy, by Yvan Goll. Fremont, Mich.: Sumac, 1970. Poems.