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- Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, (co-editor with Cornelius Eady), fiction and poetry (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)
- Tender, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1997)
- The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey, memoir (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997)
- Captivity, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990)
- Natural Birth, (Ann Arbor: Firebrand Books, 1983)
- The Empress of the Death House, poetry (New York:Lotus Press, 1978)
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