Poetry
Open House, Knopf, 1941.
The Lost Son and Other Poems, Doubleday, 1948.
Praise to the End!, Doubleday, 1951.
The Waking: Poems 1933-1953, Doubleday, 1953.
Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke, Secker & Warburg, 1957, Doubleday, 1958.
I Am! Says the Lamb, Doubleday, 1961.
Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical, Poems, Stone Wall Press, 1963.
The Far Field, Doubleday, 1964.
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, Doubleday, 1966.
Doreski, C. K. "From News to History: Robert Abbott and Carl Sandburg Read the 1919 Chicago Riot." African American Review 26.4 (Winter 1992): 637-50.
Epstein, Joseph. "'The People's Poet.'" Commentary May 1992: 47-52.
International Socialist Review 15-18 (July 1914-Feb. 1918).
Jones, Llewellyn. First Impressions: Essays on Poetry, Criticism, and Prosody. 1925. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1968.
Kostelnick, Charles. "Sandburg, Futurism, and the Aesthetics of Urban Dynamism." American Poetry 8 (Fall 1990): 46-56.
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Poetry
Riprap (Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959).
Myths & Texts (New York: Totem Press/Corinth Books, 1960; London: Centaur, 1960).
Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965).
Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965; London: Fulcrum Press, 1967); enlarged and republished as Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End Plus One (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970).
A Range of Poems (London: Fulcrum Press, 1966).
Poetry
West of Your City. Los Gatos, Calif: Talisman Press, 1960.
Traveling Through the Dark. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.
The Rescued Year. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Eleven Untitled Poems. Mt. Horeb, Wis.: Perishable Press, 1968.
Weather: Poems. Mt. Horeb, Wis.: Perishable Press, 1969.
Allegiances. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
Temporary Facts. Athens, Ohio: Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
Someday, Maybe. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
In the Clock of Reason. Victoria, B.C.: Soft Press, 1973.
Books
Poetry
Breakers: Selected Long Poems, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2000.
Fracas: Hanging Loose Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1998.
The Curious Builder: Hanging Loose Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1993.
Likewise: Hanging Loose Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1988.
Splurge: Sun Press, N.Y., N.Y. 1982.
American Express: Joe Soap’s Canoe Publications, Suffolk, U.K., 1981.
Poetry
The ballad of the free. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1966. For my people. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. With a foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet. October journey. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1973. Prophets for a new day. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. This is my century : new and collected poems. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1989. Prose A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker. Washington: Howard University Press, 1974.
Books
North Atlantic Passage (Florence, Italy: Privately Printed, 1925)
A History of the New England Poetry Club, 1915-1931. (Boston: Privately Printed, 1932)
Rock and Shell: Poems 1923-1933. (Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933)
Footsteps (Boston: Poems for a Dime, 1934)
Masque with Clowns (Boston: Poems for a Dime, 1936)
Mirrors of Venus: A Novel in Sonnets, 1914-1938 (Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1938)
Political Self-Portrait, 1919-1939 (Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1940)
Poetry
Poems (privately printed, 1909)
The Tempers (Elkin Matthews, 1913)
Al Que Quiere! (Four Seas, 1917)
Kora in Hell. Improvisations (Four Seas, 1920, repr. Kraus Reprint, 1973)
Sour Grapes (Four Seas, 1921)
Go Go (Monroe Wheeler, 1923)
Spring and All (Contact Publishing, 1923; repr. Frontier Press, 1970)
The Cod Head (Harvest Press, 1932)
Collected Poems, 1921-1931 (Objectivist Press, 1934)
An Early Martyr and Other Poems (Alcestis Press, 1935)