Poetry Collections
- 1980 Satan Says, University of Pittsburgh Press
- 1983 The Dead and the Living, Knopf
- 1987 The Gold Cell, Knopf
- 1987 The Matter of This World, Slow Dancer Press
- 1991 The Sign of Saturn, Secker & Warburg
- 1992 The Father, Secker & Warburg
- 1996 The Wellspring, Knopf
- 1999 Blood, Tin, Straw, Knopf
- 2002 The Unswept Room, Tandem Library
- 2004 Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002, Knopf
- 2008 One Secret Thing, Random House
- 2012 "Stag's Leap", Knopf
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