Bibliography
- Novels
- All-Night Visitors (1969, 1998)
- No (1973)
- Reflex and Bone Structure (1975, 1996)
- Emergency Exit (1979)
- My Amputations (1986, 2008)
- Such Was The Season (1987, 2003)
- Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar (1988)
- Dirty Bird Blues (1996, 1997)
- One Flesh (2003)
- Short Stories
- Fun & Games (1990)
- Poetry
- Swallow The Lake (1970) ISBN 0-8195-2054-3, ISBN 0-8195-1054-8
- Symptoms & Madness (1971)ISBN 87091-065-5, ISBN 87091-064-7
- Private Line (1971) Library of Congress card No. 76-160609
- The Cotton Club (1972)ISBN 0-910296-62-6
- The Syncopated Cakewalk (1974)ISBN 0-8792-024-2
- Inside Diameter: The France Poems (1985)ISBN 0-905258-09-6
- Surfaces and Masks (1988)
- Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in The Latter Part of The Century (1989)ISBN 1-55713-020-5
- Parking Lots (1992)
- Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998 (1999)
- Waiting for Sweet Betty (2002)
- Myself Painting (2008)
- Nonfiction
- Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970)
- The Dark and Feeling: Black American Writers and Their Work (1974)
- Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (1994)
- Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism (2000)
- Come by Here: My Mother's Life (2002)
- Configurations Paintings by Clarence Major (2010)
- Myself Painting Paintings by Clarence Major (2011)
- Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African-American Postmodernist, ed. Bernard W. Bell, ISBN 0-8078-2586-7 University of North Carolina Press, 2001
- Anthologies
- The New Black Poetry (1969)
- Calling The Wind: 20th Century African-American Short Stories (1993)
- The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry (1996)
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