Books
Poetry
What a Kingdom It Was, Houghton Mifflin, 1960
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock, Houghton Mifflin, 1964
Body Rags, Houghton Mifflin, 1967
First Poems, Perishable Press, 1971
The Book of Nightmares, Houghton Mifflin, 1971
The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World, Houghton Mifflin, 1974
Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, Houghton Mifflin, 1980
Selected Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1984
The Past, Houghton Mifflin, 1985
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990
Three Books, Houghton Mifflin, 1993
Imperfect Thirst, Houghton Mifflin, 1994
A New Selected Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Strong Is Your Hold, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Prose
Black Light, Houghton Mifflin, 1966
Walking Down the Stairs, University of Michigan Press, 1977
Black Light (revised version), North Point Press, 1980
How the Alligator Missed Breakfast, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Translation
The Poems of Francois Villon, New American Library, 1965
Bitter Victory by Rene Hardy, Doubleday, 1965
The Motion and Immobility of Douve by Yves Bonnefoy, Ohio University Press, 1966
Lackawanna Elegy by Yvan Goll, Sumac Press, 1970
The Poems of Francois Villon (revised version), Houghton Mifflin, 1978; University Press of New England, 1982
The Essential Rilke (with Hannah Liebmann), Ecco Press, 1999
Edition
The Essential Whitman, Ecco Press, 1987