Bibliography
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POETRY
- (With Russell Banks and Newton Smith) 15 Poems, Lillabulero Press (Northwood Narrows, NH), 1967.
- Broken Syllables, Lillabulero Press, 1969.
- Ruining the New Road: Poems, Random House (New York, NY), 1970.
- The Cloud, Barn Dream Press (Boston), 1971.
- The Moon, Penyeach Press (Baltimore), 1971.
- (With Robert Bly and William Stafford) Poems for Tennessee, Tennessee Poetry Press (Martin), 1971.
- Sleek for the Long Flight, Random House, 1972.
- Without a Mouth, Penyeach Press (Norfolk, VA), 1972.
- Sticks and Stones, Pentagram Press (Milwaukee), 1975.
- (With Mary Feeney, translator from the French) Follain, A World Rich in Anniversaries, Grilled Flowers Press (Iowa City), 1979.
- Rising and Falling, Atlantic-Little, Brown (Boston), 1979.
- Flood, Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1982.
- A Happy Childhood, Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1984.
- Foreseeable Futures, Houghton (Boston), 1987.
- Blues If You Want, Houghton, 1989.
- Selected Poems and Translations, 1969-1991, Houghton, 1992.
- Time & Money: New Poems, Houghton, 1995.
- After All: Last Poems, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1998.
- The Mortal City: 100 Epigrams of Martial, Ohio Review Books (Athens, OH), 1995.
- Time and Money: New Poems, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995.
- The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2001.
- Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews, edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2004.
OTHER
- An Oar in the Old Water (pamphlet), Stone Press (San Francisco, CA), 1974.
- (With Feeney, translator from the French) Jean Follain, Removed from Time (pamphlet), Tideline Press, 1977.
- Curiosities, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 1989.
- (Translator), Horace, The Satires of Horace, Ausable Press (Keene, NY), 2002.
Contributor to numerous anthologies; also contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. Advisory editor, Tennessee Poetry Journal, 1970-72; poetry editor, Iowa Review, 1976-77; contributing editor, Gumbo, 1977—.