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Born in 1937 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Two Poems, Hundred Pound Press (Iowa City, IA), 1965.
  • Poems for Nathan and Saul (pamphlet), Hillside Press (Mount Vernon, IA), 1966.
  • Things We Dreamt We Died For, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1966.
  • A Probable Volume of Dreams, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Woo Havoc (pamphlet), Barn Dream Press (Somerville, MA), 1971.
  • The Escape into You, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1971.
  • Residue of Song, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1974.
  • Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1978.
  • These Green-Going-to-Yellow, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1981.
  • (With William Stafford) Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry, David Godine (Boston, MA), 1983.
  • Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things That Have Been in the Fire, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1984.
  • New and Selected Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1987.
  • (With William Stafford) Annie-Over, Honeybrook Press (Rexburg, ID), 1988.
  • Iris of Creation, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1990.
  • A Marvin Bell Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose, Middlebury College Press/ University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1994.
  • The Book of the Dead Man, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1994.
  • Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1997.
  • Poetry for a Midsummer's Night, Seventy-fourth Street Productions (Seattle, WA), 1997.
  • Wednesday: Selected Poems, 1966-1997, Salmon Publishing (Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland), 1998.
  • Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 2000.

OTHER

  • Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1983.
  • (Author of introduction) Earl S. Braggs, Hat Dancer Blue, Anhinga (Tallahassee, FL), 1992.
  • (Author of preface) David H. Bain and Mary S. Duffy, editors, Whose Woods These Are: A History of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1926-1990, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1993.

Also contributor of poems to various anthologies, including Contemporary American Poets, edited by Mark Strand, New American Library (New York, NY), 1969; New Yorker Book of Poems, Viking (New York, NY), 1969; The Major Young Poets, edited by Al Lee, World Publishing, 1971; New Voices in American Poetry, edited by David Allan Evans, Winthrop Publishing, 1973; Preferences, edited by Richard Howard, Viking (New York, NY), 1974; The American Poetry Anthology, edited by Daniel Halpern, Avon (New York, NY), 1975; Fifty Poets, edited by Alberta Turner, McKay (New York, NY), 1977; Fifty Years of American Poetry,Academy of American Poets/Abrams (New York, NY), 1984; The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by J. D. McClatchy, Random House (New York, NY), 1990; Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England, 1993; Voices on the Landscape, edited by Michael Carey and Bob Neymeyer, Loess Hills Press, 1996; The Invisible Ladder, edited by Liz Rosenberg, Holt (New York, NY), 1996; and Contemporary American Poetry, edited by A. Poulin, Jr. and Michael Waters, Houghton Mifflin, 1985, 1991, 1996, 2000. Editor of Iowa Workshop Poets 1963. Author of column, "Homage to the Runner," American Poetry Review, 1975-78, 1990-92. Editor and publisher, Statements, 1959-64; poetry editor, North American Review, 1964-69, and Iowa Review, 1969-71.