Bibliography
PRIMARY SOURCES
Poetry
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What the Grass Says, Kayak (San Francisco, CA), 1967.
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Somewhere among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes, Kayak (San Francisco, CA), 1969.
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Dismantling the Silence, Braziller (New York, NY), 1971.
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White, New Rivers Press, 1972, revised edition, Logbridge Rhodes (Durango, CO), 1980.
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Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, Braziller (New York, NY), 1974.
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Biography and a Lament, Bartholemew’s Cobble (Hartford, CT), 1976.
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Charon’s Cosmology, Braziller (New York, NY), 1977.
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Brooms: Selected Poems, Edge Press (Christchurch, NZ), 1978.
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School for Dark Thoughts, Banyan Press (Pawlet, VT), 1978.
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Classic Ballroom Dances, Braziller (New York, NY), 1980.
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Austerities, Braziller (New York, NY), 1982.
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Weather Forecast for Utopia and Vicinity, Station Hill Press (Barrytown, NY), 1983.
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Selected Poems, 1963-1983, Braziller (New York, NY), 1985.
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Unending Blues, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1986.
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Nine Poems, Exact Change (Cambridge, MA), 1989.
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The World Doesn’t End, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1989.
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The Book of Gods and Devils, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1990.
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Hotel Insomnia, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1992.

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A Wedding in Hell: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1994.
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Frightening Toys, Faber & Faber (New York, NY), 1995.
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Walking the Black Cat: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1996.

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Jackstraws: Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1999, revised ed., Faber & Faber (NY), 2000.
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Selected Early Poems, Braziller (New York, NY), 2000.
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Night Picnic, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2001.
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The Voice at 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late and New Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2003.
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Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek under Your Skirt, Bloomsbury USA (New York, NY), 2005.
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My Noiseless Entourage, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2005.

Miscellaneous
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The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1985.
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Wonderful Words, Silent Truth, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1990.
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Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, Ecco (New York, NY), 1992.
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The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1994.
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Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1997.
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A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2000.
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Metaphysician in the Dark (essays), University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2003.
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(Editor, with Don Paterson) New British Poetry, Graywolf Press (Saint Paul, MN), 2004.
SECONDARY SOURCES
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Stitt, Peter, Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997).
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Thurley, Geoffrey, The American Moment: American Poetry in the Mid-Century, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978).
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Weigl, Bruce, editor, Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry, (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996).
