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Born in April 11, 1934 / Canada / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Sleeping with One Eye Open, Stone Wall Press, 1964.
  • Reasons for Moving: Poems, Atheneum, 1968.
  • Darker: Poems, Atheneum, 1970.
  • The Story of Our Lives, Atheneum, 1973.
  • The Sargeantville Notebook, Burning Deck, 1974.
  • Elegy for My Father, Windhover, 1978.
  • The Late Hour, Atheneum, 1978.
  • Selected Poems, Atheneum, 1980.
  • The Continuous Life, Knopf (New York), 1990.
  • The Monument, Ecco Press, 1991.
  • Reasons for Moving, Darker, and the Sargeantville Notebook, Knopf, 1992.
  • Dark Harbor: A Poem, Knopf, 1993.
  • Blizzard of One: Poems, Knopf, 1998.
  • 89 Clouds (single poem), monotypes by Wendy Mark and introduction by Thomas Hoving, ACA Galleries (New York), 1999.
  • Man and Camel, Knopf, 2005.
  • New Selected Poems, Knopf, 2007.

Also author of New Poems, 1990, and Chicken, Shadow, Moon & More (poems with illustrations by the author), 2000.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

  • The Planet of Lost Things, illustrated by William Pene du Bois, C. N. Potter, 1982.
  • The Night Book, illustrated by Pene du Bois, C. N. Potter, 1983.
  • Rembrandt Takes a Walk, illustrated by Red Grooms, C. N. Potter, 1986.

OTHER

  • (Editor) The Contemporary American Poets, New American Library, 1968.
  • (Editor) New Poetry of Mexico, Dutton, 1970.
  • (Editor and translator) 18 Poems from the Quechua, Halty Ferguson, 1971.
  • (Editor and translator) Rafael Alberti, The Owl's Insomnia, Atheneum, 1973.
  • (Editor with Charles Simic) Another Republic: Seventeen European and South American Writers, Ecco, 1976.
  • (Translator) Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Souvenir of the Ancient World, Antaeus Editions, 1976.
  • The Monument (prose), Ecco, 1978.
  • (Contributor) Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, University of Michigan Press, 1982.
  • (Editor) The Art of the Real (art criticism), C. N. Potter, 1983.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories (short stories), Knopf, 1985.
  • (Editor with Thomas Colchie; translator with Elizabeth Bishop, Colchie, and Gregory Rabassa) Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Traveling in the Family, Random House, 1987.
  • William Bailey (art criticism), Abrams, 1987.
  • (Editor) The Best American Poetry, 1991, Macmillan, 1991.
  • (Contributor) Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Columbia College Chicago/Aperture Foundation, 1993.
  • (Editor) Golden Ecco Anthology, Ecco Press, 1994.
  • Hopper (art criticism), Ecco Press, 1994.
  • (Editor with Eavan Boland) The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Norton (New York), 2000.
  • The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention, Knopf, 2000.
  • (Translator) Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, with Songs from the Quechua, Knopf, 2002.
  • (Editor) 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century, Norton (New York), 2005.

Also contributor to From the Northern Prairies, North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1991. Wrote text accompanying photography by Jorstad in These Rare Lands: Images of America's National Parks, c. 1998. Contributor of articles, reviews and essays to numerous periodicals, including the New York Times Book Review and Quarterly West.