Bibliography
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POETRY
- Satan Says, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1980.
- The Dead and the Living, Knopf (New York, NY), 1984.
- The Gold Cell, Knopf (New York, NY), 1987.
- The Matter of This World, Slow Dancer Press, 1987.
- The Sign of Saturn, Secker & Warburg, 1991.
- The Father, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.
- The Wellspring: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1996.
- Blood, Tin, Straw, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.
- The Unswept Room, Knopf (New York, NY), 2002.
- Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002, Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.
- One Secret Thing, Knopf (New York, NY), 2008.
- Stag’s Leap, Knopf, 2012.
OTHER
- (Author of foreword) Tory Dent, What Silence Equals, Persea Books (New York, NY) 1993.
- (Author of preface) Muriel Rukeyser, The Orgy: An Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation, Paris Press (Ashfield, MA) 1997.
CONTRIBUTOR TO ANTHOLOGIES
- The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 2nd edition, Norton (New York, NY), 1981.
- The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Robert Pack, Sydney Lea, and Jay Parini, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1985.
- Three Genres, The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, edited by Stephen Minot, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1988.
- The Pushcart Prize, VIII: Best of the Small Presses, Wainscott, 1989.
- Read to Write, Donald M. Murray, Holt (New York, NY), 1990.
- The Longman Anthology of American Poetry: Colonial to Contemporary, edited by Hilary Russell, Longman (New York, NY), 1992.
- The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, edited by Terri Windling, Tor, (New York, NY), 1995.
- For a Living: The Poetry of Work, edited by Nicholas Coles and Peter Oresick, University of Illinois Press, (Urbana, IL), 1995.
- Our Mothers, Our Selves: Writers and Poets Celebrating Motherhood, edited by J. B. Bernstein, Karen J. Donnelly, Bergin & Garvey Trade, 1996.
- The House Is Made of Poetry: The Art of Ruth Stone edited by Wendy Barker, Sandra M. Gilbert, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1996.
- By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry, edited by Molly McQuade, Graywolf Press (Saint Paul, MN), 2000.
- Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, edited by Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, Bedford/St. Martin's Press (Boston, MA) 2004.
Contributor to literary journals and magazines, including American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, Kayak, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ms., New Republic, Nation, New Yorker, Paris Review, Pequod, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and Yale Review. Olds's works have been translated into Italian, Chinese, French, and Russian.
