James Laughlin - Works

Works

Laughlin's works include:

  • In Another Country (1979)
  • Selected Poems (1986)
  • The House of Light (1986)
  • Tabellae (1986)
  • The Owl of Minerva (Copper Canyon Press, 1987)
  • Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988)
  • The Bird of Endless Time (Copper Canyon Press, 1989)
  • Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992)
  • Angelica (1992)
  • The Man in the Wall (1993)
  • The Country Road (1995)
  • The Secret Room (1997)
  • A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998)
  • Byways: A Memoir (2005)
  • The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006)

Laughlin's correspondence with William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller, Thomas Merton, Delmore Schwartz, Ezra Pound, and others has been published in a series of volumes issued by Norton.

One of Laughlin's most anthologized works is "Step on His Head", a poem about his relationship with his children.

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