The Bestiary
The Dial Press: July 3, 2007
Paperback: Dial Books: July 1, 2008
Franklin Flyer
The Dial Press: April 2002
Paperback: Delta: March 2003
A Trip to the Stars
The Dial Press: February 2000
Paperback: Scribner: February 2001
Veronica
The Dial Press: February 1996
Paperback (mass market): Avon: March 1997
Paperback (trade edition): HarperPerennial: January 2000
Paperback (trade edition): Dial Books: July 1, 2008
Audiocassette: Bantam, Doubleday, Dell: 1997
Book Club: Quality Paperback Book Club: 1996
Film Option: Empire Pictures: December 2004-
The Soloist
Viking Penguin: 1986
Reissued in paperback: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007
Film Option: Provocateur Films: Jan. 2005-
Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004
Harcourt: April 2004
Paperback: Harvest: April 2007
Atomic Field: Two Poems
Harcourt, New York: 2000
The Creation of the Night Sky
Harcourt Brace: 1998
Paperback: Harvest: 1999
5 Degrees & Other Poems
Viking Penguin: 1995
Paperback: Penguin, 1996
In the Year of the Comet
Viking: 1992
Paperback: Penguin, 1992
Desperate Characters: A Novella in Verse
Viking: 1988
Paperback: Penguin, 1988
A Short History of the Island of Butterflies
Viking: 1986
Paperback: Penguin, 1986
On Tour with Rita
Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
(Knopf Poetry Series #8)
Paperback: Knopf, 1982
Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American
City
The Free Press, New York: 1997
Paperback: Owl Books/Henry Holt: March 1998
Expanded Paperback: Shoemaker & Hoard 2006
{10th Anniversary edition with a new Preface}
Walk on the Wild Side: Urban American Poetry Since 1975
Scribner:
1994
Paperback: Touchstone, 1994
Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets
Anchor Books,
New York: 1989
Passim Editions: 2004
A limited edition of the long poem, "Ultima Thule," signed by the author and the artist. Thirty copies, illustrated with color woodcuts, were printed and bound by the artist and printer, Wesley B. Tanner, using Bauer Bodoni type and Vit Bloma handmade paper (produced in Sweden in the late 1950s). The title lettering is by Susan Skarsgard. Copies still available are on sale from Mr. Tanner for $1,500 each. [wbtanner@umich.edu]
{The poem previously appeared in the Paris Review}
Introductions
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing, New York Review Press: 2006
Anthologies
Poet's Choice. Harcourt, 2006
The Longman Anthology of Poetry. Pearson/Longman, 2006
The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology. Persea, 2006
The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th Edition). Norton, 2005
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry. Random House, 2003
The Paris Review 50th Anniversary Anthology. Picador, 2003
Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales. M. Evans, 2003
Visiting Walt (an anthology of Walt Whitman poems). Iowa, 2003
New York Poems. Everyman Books/Alfred A. Knopf, 2002
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths. Oxford, 2001
Peace in Winter Gardens. Penguin, New Delhi, 2000
Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City. Milkweed, 2000
Orpheus & Company. New England, 1999
The Norton Anthology of Love. Norton, 1998
Night Errands: How Poets Use Their Dreams. Pittsburgh Press, 1998
Sixty Years of American Poetry. Harry N. Abrams, 1996
The Norton Anthology of Poetry (4th Edition). Norton, 1996
Lights, Camera, Poetry! Harcourt Brace, 1996
The Best American Poetry 1995. Scribner-Touchstone, 1995
Eternal Light. Harcourt Brace, 1995
The Faber Book of Movie Verse. Faber & Faber, London, 1993
The Best American Poetry 1988. Scribner-Collier, 1988
The Grand Street Reader. Summit: 1986
Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets. Quill-Morrow, 1985
New York: Poems. Avon Books, 1980
Magazines
The New Yorker
Esquire
The Paris Review
The New York Review of Books
The Nation
The New Republic
The New York Times Book Review
The Los Angeles Times