Poetry

Halfway 1961

The Privilege 1965

The Nightmare Factory 1970

Up Country: Poems of New England 1972

House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate 1975

The Retrieval System 1978

Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems 1982

Closing the Ring: Selected Poems 1984

The Long Approach 1985

Nurture 1989

Looking for Luck 1992

Connecting the Dots 1996

Other Major Works

Sebastian and the Dragon (juvenilia) 1960

Follow the Fall (juvenilia) 1961

Spring Things (juvenilia) 1961

A Summer Story (juvenilia) 1961

A Winter Friend (juvenilia) 1961

Mittens in May (juvenilia) 1962

No One Writes a Letter to the Snail (juvenilia) 1962

Archibald the Traveling Poodle (juvenilia) 1963

Eggs of Things [with Anne Sexton] (juvenilia) 1963

The Beach Before Breakfast (juvenilia) 1964

More Eggs of Things [with Anne Sexton] (juvenilia) 1964

Speedy Deigs Downside Up (juvenilia) 1964

Through Dooms of Love (novel) 1965; published in England as A Daughter and Her Loves 1965

Paul Bunyan (juvenilia) 1966

Faraway Farm (juvenilia) 1967

The Passions of Uxport (novel) 1968

The Wonderful Babies of 1809 and Other Years (juvenilia) 1968

When Grandmother Was Young (juvenilia) 1969

When Mother Was Young (juvenilia) 1970

The Abduction (novel) 1971

Joey and the Birthday Present [with Anne Sexton] (juvenilia) 1971

When Great-Grandmother Was Young (juvenilia) 1971

The Designated Heir (novel) 1974

The Wizard's Tears [with Anne Sexton] (juvenilia) 1975

What Color Is Caesar? (juvenilia) 1978

To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living (essays) 1980

Why Can't We Live Together Like Civilized Human Beings? (short fiction) 1982

The Microscope (juvenilia) 1984

In Deep: Country Essays (essays) 1987

Women, Animals, and Vegetables (essays and short stories) 1994