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Bronze Age. Emory, Va.: Iron Mountain Press, 1981.
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Groundwork. Frankfort, Ky.: Gnomon Press, 1979.
The Hinterlands: A Mountain Tale in Three Parts. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
Land Diving: New Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.
The Mountains Won’t Remember Us and Other Stories. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1992.
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Red Owl. New York: Norton, 1972.
Sigodlin: Poems. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
This Rock: A Novel. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.
Topsoil Road: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
The Truest Pleasure. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1995.
Trunk & Thicket. Fort Collins, Colo.: L’Epervier Press, 1978.
The Voice in the Crosshairs. Ithaca, N.Y.: Angelfish Press, 1971.
Watershed. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1991.
Wild Peavines. Frankfort, Ky.: Gnomon, 1996.
Zirconia Poems. Northwood Narrows, N.H., Lillabulero Press, 1969.