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Born in December 23, 1926 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POEMS

  • (With William Duffy and James Wright), The Lion’s Tail and Eyes: Poems Written Out of Laziness and Silence, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1962.
  • Silence in the Snowy Fields, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1962.
  • (Compiler, with David Ray) A Poetry Reading against the Vietnam War, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1966.
  • The Light around the Body, Harper (New York, NY), 1967.
  • Chrysanthemums, Ox Head Press (Menomonie, WI), 1967.
  • Ducks, Ox Head Press (Menomonie, WI), 1968.
  • The Morning Glory: Another Thing That Will Never Be My Friend (twelve prose poems), Kayak Books (San Francisco, CA), 1969 , revised edition, 1970, complete edition, Harper (New York, NY), 1975.
  • The Teeth Mother Naked at Last, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1971.
  • (With William E. Stafford and William Matthews) Poems for Tennessee, Tennessee Poetry Press, 1971.
  • Christmas Eve Service at Midnight at St. Michael’s, Sceptre Press (Rushden, Northamptonshire, England), 1972.
  • Water under the Earth, Sceptre Press (Rushden, Northamptonshire, England), 1972.
  • The Dead Seal Near McClure’s Beach, Sceptre Press (Rushden, Northamptonshire, England), 1973.
  • Sleepers Joining Hands, Harper (New York, NY), 1973.
  • Jumping Out of Bed, Barre (Barre, MA), 1973.
  • The Hockey Poem, Knife River Press, 1974.
  • Point Reyes Poems, Mudra, 1974, new edition, Floating Island (Point Reyes Station, CA), 1989.
  • Old Man Rubbing His Eyes, Unicorn Press (Greensboro, NC), 1975.
  • The Loon, Ox Head Press (Marshall, MN), 1977.
  • This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (prose poems), Harper (New York, NY), 1977.
  • Visiting Emily Dickinson’s Grave and Other Poems, Red Ozier Press (Madison, WI), 1979.
  • This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years, Harper (New York, NY), 1979.
  • The Man in the Black Coat Turns, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1981.
  • Finding an Old Ant Mansion, Martin Booth (Knotting, Bedford, England), 1981.
  • Four Ramages, Barnwood Press, 1983.
  • The Whole Moisty Night, Red Ozier Press (Madison, WI), 1983.
  • Out of the Rolling Ocean, Dial Press (New York, NY), 1984.
  • Mirabai Versions, Red Ozier Press (Madison, WI), 1984.
  • In the Month of May, Red Ozier Press (Madison, WI), 1985.
  • A Love of Minute Particulars, Sceptre Press (Rushden, Northamptonshire, England), 1985.
  • Selected Poems, Harper (New York, NY), 1986.
  • Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, Perennial/Harper (New York, NY), 1987.
  • The Moon on a Fencepost, Unicorn Press, 1988.
  • The Apple Found in the Plowing, Haw River Books, 1989.
  • Angels of Pompeii, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1991.
  • What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Gratitude to Old Teachers, BOA Editions (Brockport, NY), 1993.
  • Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems, HarperPerennial (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Morning Poems, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.
  • Holes the Crickets Have Eaten in Blankets: A Sequence of Poems (Boa Pamphlets, No 9), Boa Editions (Rochester, NY), 1997.
  • Snowbanks North of the House, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.
  • Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.
  • The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
  • My Sentence was a Thousand Years of Joy, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.
  • The Urge to Travel Long Distances, (Eastern Washington University Press, Spokane, WA), 2005.
  • Turkish Pears in August: Twenty-Four Ramages, (Eastern Washington University Press, Spokane, WA), 2007.

EDITOR

  • The Sea and the Honeycomb, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1966.
  • (With David Ray) A Poetry Reading against the Vietnam War, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1967.
  • Forty Poems Touching Upon Recent History, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1970.
  • News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Sierra Books (San Francisco, CA), 1980.
  • Ten Love Poems, Ally Press (St. Paul, MN), 1981.
  • (With William Duffy) The Fifties and the Sixties (ten volumes), Hobart and William Smith, 1982.
  • The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau, Yolla Bolly Press (Covelo, CA), 1986.
  • (With James Hillman and Michael Meade) The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Leaping Poetry, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1975.
  • David Ignatow, Selected Poems, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1975.
  • Selected from Twentieth-Century American Poetry: An Anthology, New Readers Press, 1991.
  • William Stafford, The Darkness around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, HarperPerennial (New York, NY), 1993.
  • (With Roy U. Schenk, John Everingham, and Gershen Kaufman), Men Healing Shame: An Anthology, Springer Publishing (New York, NY), 1995.
  • The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1995.
  • Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, HarperFlamingo (New York, NY), 1999.
  • The Best American Poetry 1999, Scribner (New York, NY), 1999.

TRANSLATOR

  • Hans Hvass, Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, Grosset (New York, NY), 1960.
  • (With James Wright) Georg Trakl, Twenty Poems, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1961.
  • Selma Lager, The Story of Gosta Berling, New American Library (New York, NY), 1962.
  • (With James Knoefle and James Wright) César Vallejo, Twenty Poems, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1962.
  • Knut Hamsun, Hunger (novel), Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1967.
  • (With Christina Paulston) Gunnar Ekeloef, I Do Best Alone at Night, Charioteer Press (Washington, DC), 1967.
  • (With Christina Paulston) Gunnar Ekeloef, Late Arrival on Earth: Selected Poems, Rapp & Carroll (London, England), 1967.
  • Wang Hui-ming, Woodcut (limited edition), Epoh Studio (Amherst, MA), 1968.
  • (With James Wright) Pablo Neruda, Twenty Poems, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1968.
  • (With others) Yvan Goll, Selected Poems, Kayak, 1968.
  • Issa Kobayashi, Ten Poems, privately printed, 1969.
  • (And editor) Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo, Selected Poems, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1971.
  • Kabir, The Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty: Versions of Kabir, Lillabulero Press (Northwood Narrows, NH), 1971.
  • Tomas Tranströmer, Night Vision, Lillabulero Press (Northwood Narrows, NH), 1971.
  • Tomas Tranströmer, Twenty Poems, Seventies Press (Madison, MN), 1972.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Ten Sonnets to Orpheus, Zephyrus Image (San Francisco, CA), 1972.
  • Basho, Basho, Mudra, 1972.
  • Tomas Tranströmer, Elegy; Some October Notes (limited edition), Sceptre Press (Rushden, Northamptonshire, England), 1973.
  • Federico Garcia Lorca and Juan Ramon Jimenez, Selected Poems, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1973.
  • Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets—Martinson, Ekeloef, and Tranströmer, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1975.
  • Kabir, Grass from Two Years, Ally Press (Denver, CO), 1975.
  • Kabir, Twenty-eight Poems, Siddha Yoga Dham, 1975.
  • Kabir, Try to Live to See This!, Ally Press (Denver, CO), 1976.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, The Voices, Ally Press (Denver, CO), 1977.
  • Kabir, The Kabir Book: Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1977.
  • Rolf Jacobsen, Twenty Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, Eighties Press (Madison, MN), 1977.
  • Antonio Machado, I Never Wanted Fame, Ally Press (St. Paul, MN), 1979.
  • Antonio Machado, Canciones, Toothpaste Press (West Branch, IA), 1980.
  • Tomas Tranströmer, Truth Barriers, Sierra Books (San Francisco, CA), 1980.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, I Am Too Alone in the World: Ten Poems, Silver Hands Press (New York, NY), 1980.
  • (And editor) Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke: A Translation from the German, and Commentary, Harper (New York, NY), 1981.
  • Rumi, Jalal alDin, Night and Sleep, Yellow Moon Press (Cambridge, MA), 1981.
  • Goran Sonnevi, The Economy Spinning Faster and Faster, SUN, 1982.
  • Antonio Machado, Times Alone: Selected Poems, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1983.
  • Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile, photographs by Milton Rogovin, poems by Pablo Neruda, edited by Dennis Maloney, introduction by Pablo Neruda, White Pine Press (Buffalo, NY), 1985.
  • Rumi, Jalal al-Din, When Grapes Turn to Wine, Yellow Moon Press (Cambridge, MA), 1986.
  • Olav H. Hauge, Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN), 1987.
  • Ten Poems of Francis Ponge, and Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge, Owl’s Head Press (Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada), 1990.
  • Lorca and Jimenez: Selected Poems, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1997.
  • (With Sunil Dutta) Ghalib, The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1999.
  • (With Roger Greenwald and Robert Hedin) The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 2001.
  • Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer, Graywolf Press (St. Paul, MN), 2001.
  • Tomas Tranströmer, Air Mail: Brev 1964-1990, Bonnier (Stockholm, Sweden), 2001.
  • Kabir, Kabir: Ecstatic Poems, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 2004.
  • The Winged Energy of Delight, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

Also translator of such volumes as Forty Poems of Juan Ramon Jimenez, 1967, and, with Lewis Hyde, Twenty Poems of Vincente Alexandre, 1977.

OTHER

  • A Broadsheet against the New York Times Book Review, Sixties Press (Madison, MN), 1961.
  • (Contributor) Ten Songs for Low Man’s Voice and Piano, Mobart (Hillsdale, NY), 1978.
  • What the Fox Agreed to Do: Four Poems, Croissant (Athens, OH), 1979.
  • Talking All Morning: Collected Conversations and Interviews, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1980.
  • The Eight Stages of Translation, Rowan Tree (Boston, MA), 1983, 2nd edition, 1986.
  • The Pillow and the Key: Commentary on the Fairy Tale “Iron John,” Ally Press (St. Paul, MN), 1987.
  • A Little Book on the Human Shadow, edited by William Booth, Harper (New York, NY), 1988.
  • American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity, Harper (New York, NY), 1990.
  • Iron John: A Book about Men, Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA), 1990.
  • Remembering James Wright, Ally Press (St. Paul, MN), 1991.
  • (With Jacob Boehme) Between Two Worlds, music by John Harbison, G. Schirmer (New York, NY), 1991.
  • The Spirit Boy and the Insatiable Soul, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1994.
  • The Sibling Society, Addison-Wesley Publishers (Reading, MA), 1996.
  • (With Marion Woodman) The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 1998.