Poetry Collections:
Angel Fire. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State U P, 1973.
Part I. Lovers' Bodies.
"At Our Fingers' Tips There Are Small Faces,"
"At This Moment,"
"Bloodstains,"
"Contrary Motions,"
"Dancer,"
"Hate,"
"Insomnia,"
"Lovers' Bodies,"
"Making an End,"
"Several Embraces,"
"The Small Still Voice behind the Great Romances,"
"Structures,"
"Unpronouncing of Names,"
"Where the Shadow Is Darkest,"
"Where the Wind Went Crazy,"
"A Woman's Song,"
Part II. Domestic Miracles.
"Angel Fire,"
"A City Graveyard,"
"Domestic Miracles,"
"Leaving the Mountains,"
"Mile-High Monday,"
"Our Common Past,"
"A Secular Morning,"
"A Young Wife,"
Part III. Revelations.
"Acceleration near the Point of Impact,"
"Becoming Garbage,"
"Children Not Kept at Home,"
"City of Locks,"
"Elegy of the Letter 'I,'"
"Entering the Desert,"
"Family,"
"Firing a Field,"
"How I Became Fiction,"
"Iris into Eye,"
"A Midwestern Song,"
"Mouth,"
"The Nightmare,"
"Prophecies,"
"Revelations in Small Sunbaked Squares,"
"The Secret Sweetness of Nightmares,"
"Southern Swamp,"
"Things Happen to Us,"
"What We Fear from Dreams and Waking,"
Anonymous Sins. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State U P, 1969.
"Alarms,"
"American City,"
"And So I Grew Up to Be Nineteen and to Murder,"
"Anonymous Sins,"
"At an Old Downtown Square,"
"Centuries of Lovers,"
"A Crowded River, Sunday,"
"Cupid and Psyche,"
"The Dark,"
"Dead Actors,"
"A Drawing of Darkness,"
"Five Confessions,"
"Foetal Song,"
"A Girl at the Center of Her Life,"
"Gravity,"
"In the Night,"
"An Internal Landscape,"
"Like This, . . . So This,"
"Lines for Those to Whom Tragedy Is Denied,"
"Marriage,"
"Of the Violence of Self-Death,"
"On Being Borne Reluctantly to New York State, by Train,"
"The Ride,"
"A Rising and Sinking and Rising in My Mind,"
"Sleepwalking,"
"Three Dances of Death,"
"Tinkly Song,"
"To Whose Country Have I Come?,"
"Transparencies,"
"Unborn Child,"
"Vanity,"
"A Woman in Her Secret Life,"
"Women in Love,"
The Fabulous Beasts. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State U P, 1975.
Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems 1970-1982. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review P/New York: Persea, 1982.
Love and Its Derangements. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State U P, 1970.
Tenderness. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review P, 1996. Reprinted: Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review P/New York: Norton, 2001.
"American Holiday," 63.
"Ballad of Ashfield Avenue," 66-67.
"The Black Glove: A Rapture," 61-62.
"The Bullfrogs," 11.
"Burning Oak, November," 79.
"Child Walking in Sleep," 36.
"Dakota Mystery, 10 May 1994," 69.
"$," 51.
"Elegy: The Ancestors," 46.
"Flash Flood," 44.
"Flirtation, July 1953," 7-8.
"Frequent Flier I," 70.
"Frequent Flier II," 71-76.
"George Bellows' 'Mrs. T. in Cream Silk, No. 1,' (1919-23),"
"Glimpsed from a Car, Quickly Passing," 4.
"Hands, Prints, Time: A Collage," 56-58.
"He Was Talking about His Friend," 55.
"Hermit Crab," 83.
"I Am Krishna, Destroyer of Worlds," 89.
"Immobility Defense," 86.
"In Blue Nantucket," 5-6.
"In the Country of the Blue," 91.
"The Infant's Wake," 40-41.
"Insomnia," 54.
"The Insomniac," 80.
"Island, 1949," 28-29.
"Like Walking to the Drug Store, When I Get Out," 64-65.
"The Lord Is My Shepherd I Shall Not Want," 47.
"Lost Creek," 30-31.
"Marsena Sportsmen's Club, 1957," 35.
"Motive, Metaphor," 78.
"Nightmare, So Sweet," 10.
"Nostalgia," 48-50.
"O, Crayola!," 3.
"Off-Season," 12.
"Old Concord Cemetery," 81.
"On This Morning of Grief," 13.
"Once upon a Time," 14.
"Onion," 52.
"Recollection, in Tranquility," 53.
"Recurring Dream of Childhood," 42-43.
"The Riddle," 77.
"Rise Up, O Men of God," 45.
"Sexy," 15-20.
"Snapshot Album," 37.
"The Stone Well," 32-34.
"Such Bounty!," 90.
"Summer Squall, Monhegan Island," 82.
"Tenderness," 21-26.
"There Was a Shot," 60.
"The Thin Rain," 9.
"To an Aged Cat Dying in My Arms," 88.
"The Triumph of Gravity," 85.
"Undertow, Wolf's Head Lake," 38-39.
"Upstairs," 59.
"What Is Most American Is Most in Motion," 68.
The Time Traveler. New York: Dutton, 1989.
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State U P, 1978.