Male : Poet, Editor & Translator. Married Carolyn McLean in 1955

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Madison, Minnesota

Date of Birth : 1926

Education : St Olaf's College, Northfield & Harvard. University of Iowa

1962-1970
Silence in the Snowy Fields & other Poems (1962) (1967 Cape 16/-)
The Lion's Tail and Eyes : Poems Written Out of Laziness and Silence
(1962) - with James Wright & William Duffy
(Ed) A Poetry reading Against the Vietnam War (1968) - with David Ray
(Ed) The Sea and the Honeycomb : A Book of Tiny Poems (1966)
Chrysanthemums (1967 Ox Head Press, WI) - 350
The Light Around the Body : Poems (1967 Harper & Row, NY) (1968 Rapp & Whiting 16/-)
Ducks (1968)
The Morning Glory : Another Thing that Will Never Be My Friend - 12 Prose Poems
(1969 Kayak Press, SF)
The Teeth-Mother Naked at Last (1970 City Lights)
(Ed) Forty Poems Touching on Recent American History (1970)

1971-1975
Poems for Tennessee (1971) - et al
Water Under the Earth (1972 Sceptre Press, Northants) - Ltd Ed 150
Sleepers Joining Hands (1973)
Jumping Out of Bed (1973)
The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach (1973 Sceptre) - 150
Point Reyes Poems (1974)
The Hockey Poem (1974)
Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1975)
(Ed) Selected Poems by David Ignatow (1975)
(Ed) Leaping Poetry : An Idea with Poems and Translations (1975)
The Morning Glory (1975)

1976-1980
This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977)
This Tree will be here for a Thousand Years (1979 NY)
Mirabai Versions (1980 Red Ozier Press, NY)

1981-1990
The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981 Dial)
Finding an Old Ant Mansion (1981 Martin Booth) - 130
Four Ramages of Robert Bly (1983 Barnwood Press, Daleville, Indiana) - Barbara LaRue King
The Whole Moisty Night (1983 Botnick & Miller, NY)
A Man Loves a Woman in Both Worlds (1983)
The Eight Stages of Translation (1984 Rowan Tree Press $7.95)
Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1987 Ally Press, St Paul, Minnesota)
A Love of Minute Particulars (1988 Sceptre Press £4.95)
Point Reyes Poems (1989 Floating Island Publications, Fort Reyes Station)

AFTER 1991
Iron John : A Book about Men (1991 Element £12.95)
What Have I Ever Lost by Dying ? (1992 Harper Collins NY)
The Sibling Society (1996)
Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (1997 Weatherlight, Bristol £6.99)

TRANSLATIONS
Basho : Basho (1974)
Gunnar Ekelof : I Do Best Alone at Night (1967) - with Christina Paulston
Late Arrival on Earth : Selected Poems (1967) - with Christina Paulston
Yvan Goll : Selected Poems (1968)
Knut Hamsun : Hunger (1967)
Hans Hvass : Reptiles and Amphibians of the World (1961)
Juan Ramon Jimenez : Forty Poems (1969)
Kabir : The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty - Versions of Kabir (1971)
Try to Live to See This : Versions of Kabir (1976)
The Kabir Book (1977)
Issa Kobayashi : Tem Poems (1969)
Selma Lagerlof : The Story of Gosta Berling (1962)
Lorca : Lorca and Jimenez : Selected Poems (1973)
Pablo Neruda : Twenty Poems (1968) - with James Wright
Neruda and Vallejo : Selected Poems (1971) - et al
Rilke : Ten Sonnets to Orpheus (1974)
The Voices (1977)
Georg Trakl : Twenty Poems (1961) - with James Wright
Tomas TRANSTROMER : Three Poems (1966) - et al
Twenty Poems (1971)
Night Vision (1971)
Friends, You Drank some Darkness : Three Swedish Poets - Henry Martinson, Gunnar Eklof
& Tomas Transtromer (1975)
Elegy - Some October Notes (1973 Sceptre Press) - 150 numbered
Cesar Vallejo : Twenty Poems (1962) - et al