Poetry Collections
- 1983: Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, 64 pages, Fairfax, California: Taylor Street Press, ISBN 0911407006
- 1985: Strangely Marked Metal, 50 pages, Providence, Rhode Island: Copper Beech Press, ISBN 0914278460
- 1994: Flamingo Watching, 63 pages, Providence, Rhode Island: Copper Beech Press, ISBN 0914278649
- 1996: Elephant Rocks, 84 pages, New York: Grove Press, ISBN 0802115861
- 2000: Say Uncle, New York: Grove Press, 80 pages, ISBN 0802137172
- 2005: The Niagara River, 72 pages, New York: Grove Press, ISBN 0802142222
- 2008: Jam Jar Lifeboat & Other Novelties Exposed, illustrated by Carl Dern. 40 pages, Red Berry Editions, ISBN 9780981578118
- 2010: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Grove Press, ISBN 978-0802119148
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