Books & CDs
Jersey Breaks, 2022
The Book of Poetry for Hard Times, 2021
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall:
Poems at the Extremes of Feeling, 2019
Poems at the Extremes of Feeling, 2019
At the Foundling Hospital, 2016
PoemJazz II: House Hour (CD), 2015
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying the Masters, 2014
The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition, 2013
Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein, 2013
PoemJazz (CD), 2012
Selected Poems, 2012
Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town, 2009
Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (with CD), 2009
Gulf Music, 2007
An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology (with DVD), 2006
First Things to Hand, 2006
The Life of David, 2005
An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology, 2004
Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry (Princeton University Tanner Lectures), 2003
Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology, 2002
Jersey Rain, 2001
Americans’ Favorite Poems, 1999
The Sounds of Poetry, 1998
The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow, 1998
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1997
The Inferno of Dante (translation), 1996
Poetry and the World, 1992
The Want Bone, 1991
History of My Heart, published 1984, reprinted 1997
The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz (translation), published 1984, reprinted 2001
An Explanation of America, 1979
The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions, 1978
Sadness and Happiness, 1975