Poetry
- Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959)
- The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956; published 1960) (meditations, koans, poems)
- Scattered Poems (1945–1968; published 1971)
- Book of Sketches (1952–1957)
- Old Angel Midnight (1956; published 1973)
- Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch)
- Heaven and Other Poems (1957–1962; published 1977)
- San Francisco Blues (1954; published 1991)
- Pomes All Sizes (compiled 1960; published 1992)
- Book of Blues (1954–1961)
- Book of Haikus (published 2003)
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