The Lion's Tail and Eyes: Poems Written Out of Laziness and Silence [with William Duffy and James Wright] 1962

Silence in the Snowy Fields 1962

The Sea and the Honeycomb 1966

The Light Around the Body 1967

Ducks 1968

The Morning Glory: Another Thing That Will Never Be My Friend 1969

The Teeth Mother Naked at Last 1971

Water Under the Earth 1972

The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach 1973

Jumping Out of Bed 1973

Sleepers Joining Hands 1973

Point Reyes Poems 1974

Old Man Rubbing His Eyes 1975

The Loon 1977

This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood 1977

This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years 1979

The Man in the Black Coat Turns 1981

Selected Poems 1986

Loving a Woman in Two Worlds 1987

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men [editor; with James Hillman and Michael Meade] 1992

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?: Collected Prose Poems 1992

Morning Poems 1997

Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems 1999

Snowbanks North of the House 1999

The Night Abraham Called to the Stars 2001

A Broadsheet against the New York Times Book Review (essays) 1961

*“Being a Lutheran Boy-God in Minnesota” (essays) 1976

Talking All Morning (interviews) 1980

The Eight Stages of Translation (nonfiction) 1983

Iron John: A Book about Men (nonfiction) 1990

The Sibling Society (nonfiction) 1996

*Published in Growing Up in Minnesota: Ten Writers Remember Their Childhoods.