Ariadne: A Play in Three Acts and Poems (drama and poetry) 1939
Not I, But Death, A Play in One Act (drama) 1941
A Change of World (poetry) 1951
The Diamond Cutters, and Other Poems (poetry) 1955
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954–1962 (poetry) 1963; revised edition, 1983
Necessities of Life: Poems, 1962–1965 (poetry) 1966
Selected Poems (poetry) 1967
Leaflets: Poems, 1965–1968 (poetry) 1969
The Will to Change: Poems, 1968–1970 (poetry) 1971
Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971–1972 (poetry) 1973
Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974 (poetry) 1975
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (essays) 1976
Twenty-One Love Poems (poetry) 1976
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying (essay) 1977
∗The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974–1977 (poetry) 1978
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966–1978 (essays) 1979
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (essay) 1980
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems, 1978–1981 (poetry) 1981
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950–1984 (poetry) 1984
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979–1985 (essays) 1986
†Your Native Land, Your Life (poetry) 1986
Time's Power: Poems, 1985–1988 (poetry) 1989
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988–1991 (poetry) 1991
Collected Early Poems, 1950–1970 (poetry) 1993
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (prose) 1993
Dark Fields of the Republic (poetry) 1995