The Dancer. Jargon 2. Black Mountain,
N.C.: [Jonathan Williams], 1951. A folded
broadside, limited to 150 copies; with
a drawing by Robert Rauschenberg.
Four
Poems to Spring. Black Mountain,
N.C.: The Author, 1951. "Composed,
hand-set, printed, and bound by the
author at the print shop. Black Mountain
College. . . May, 1951."
The
Dutiful Son. Jargon 16. [Highlands,
N.C.]: Jonathan Williams, 1956.
Drawing by Joe Fiore. "A printing
of 200 plus an author's edition of
30."
The
Love Bit, and Other Poems. New
York: Totem Press in association with
Corinth Books, 1962. Cover illustration
by Dan Rice.
The
Great American Desert. Evergreen
Playscript no. 3. New York: Grove
Press, 1966.
A
Treatise. New York: Brownstone
Press, 1966. A poem printed on loose
sheets laid in folder; 100 copies.
Sirventes
on a Sad Occurrence. Madison,
Wis.: Perishable Press, 1967. A chapbook,
130 copies signed by the author.
When
the Drums Stopped. Pleasant Valley,
N.Y.: Krija Press of Sri Ram Ashrama,
1967. A broadside, limited to 100
copies.
In
Time: Poems 1962-1968. Indianapolis
and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
Cloth edition only.
17-18
April, 1961. Press of the Black
Flag Raised no. 5. [Somerville, Mass.]:
Press of the Black Flag Raised, [1970].
Folded broadside.
On
Occasion: Some Births, Deaths, Weddings,
Birthdays, Holidays, and Other Events.
Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill,
1973. Published in cloth and paper
editions.
The
Wrong Season. Indianapolis and
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. Cloth
edition. A paper edition was published
by Award Books, New York, in 1974.
Introduction by Joe Flaherty.
Pani's
Eyes. A Haystack Book. Amherst,
Mass.: Mulch Press, 1974. Short stories.
Published in a signed and numbered
edition of 75 copies and a paper edition.
"The
Lesson"; "Art"; "Hyacinthus"; "Nature".
Kent, OH: Creative Arts Festival,
1974. These four poems were printed
as a broadside, and the broadside
was included in a folder of other
broadsides.
The
Woman Poems. Indianapolis: The
Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1975.
Plus
Ça Change. Storrs, CT: The
University of Connecticut Library,
1975. Published as a broadside in
an edition of 250 copies.
Acts
, Driftless, WI: Perishable Press,
1976. Published in an edition of 112
copies.
Names,
Dates, & Places. Laurenberg,
NC: Saint Andrews Press, 1978.
("it is such / a simple text"). Buffalo,
NY: Friends of the Lockwood Memorial
Library, 1979. Published as "Christmas
Broadside" Second Series, Number One.
50 copies were numbered and signed
by the poet and illustrator, John
Dobbs.
Chai
Number One. Gloucester, MA: Bezoir,
1979. Published as Bezoir 18.1 (1979)
the issue contained: "Life Studies,"
"Summer," "The Lady," and "Lessons."
On
the Giving of a Talas. New York:
The Author, 1979. Published in an
edition of 50 numbed and signed broadsides.
Reprinted as "Ritual" in New Hampshire
Journal.
from At Fifty ("in the seat/of
a car"). Newton, MA: Arts End Books,
1980. Published as part of Arts End
Shipping Tag Poems; poem number IV
of the second section of At Fifty.
The
Only Anarchist General. Rocky
Mount, NC: Arthur Mann Kaye, 1980.
The poem was reprinted from the volume
On Occasion (Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1973).
Just
Friends/Friends and Lovers: Poems
1959-1962. Highlands, NC: The
Jargon Society, 1980. Published as
Jargon 57. This volume contains poems
from the first part of OppenheimerŐs
career.
The
Progression Begins. New York:
# Magazine, 1981. Published as "a
special un-numbered issue of # magazine,
January 1981." Published in New
Spaces Poems 1975-1983 as "The
Progression."
Marilyn
Lives. New York: Delilah Books,
1981.
Houses.
Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press,
1981.
Del
Quien Lo Tom— :: a suite. Minor
Confluence, WI: The Perishable Press,
1982. Published in an edition of 228
copies.
2 from At Fifty ("mao sd")
and ("others have said it"); poems
number XIV and number XV of the fourth
section of At Fifty. Laurenberg,
NC: Saint Andrews Press, 1982.
At
Fifty. Laurenberg, NC: Saint Andrews
Press, 1982.
The
Ghost Lover. Rocky Mount, NC:
Arthur Mann Kaye, 1983. Published
in an edition of 500 copies, "one
hundred of which are numbered and
signed."
Poetry,
the Ecology of the Soul: Talks and
Selected Poems, eds. David Landrey
and Dennis Maloney. Buffalo, NY: White
Pine Press, 1983. The poems "Acts,"
"Houses," "Cacti," "A Beginning,"
"Lessons," Spring, "Five Attempts
at the Armenian," "For Max," and "The
Oldest" were published as "Uncollected
Poems." "For Max" and "The Oldest"
are reprinted here.
Generations:
Poems. Buffalo, NY: BobŐs Slow
Foods Editions, 1983. Published in
an edition of 5 signed and numbered
copies.
Notes
Toward the Definition of David,
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press
Limited, 1984. Published in an edition
of 210 copies.
New
Spaces: Poems 1975-1983. Santa
Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press,
1985.
Why
Not. Rochester, NY: Press of
the Good Mountain, 1985; reprinted
Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1987.
First published in an edition of 100
numbered and signed copies.
The
Teacher. Rocky Mount, NC: Arthur
Mann Kaye, 1986. Published in an edition
of 500 copies "fifty of which are
numbered and signed."
The
Uses of Adversity. Vandergrift,
PA: The Zelot Press, 1987. There were
two printings for The Zelot Press,
and a third printing for the Oncology
Services of Yonkers General Hospital
by Zelot Press, 1987.
Names
& Local Habitations (Selected Earlier
Poems 1951-1972) . Highlands,
NC: The Jargon Society, 1988. Introduction
by William Corbett.
New
Hampshire Journal. Perry Township,
WI: Perishable Press, 1994. Published
in an edition of 125 with wood engravings
by Margaret Sunday.
"Sioux
Song," and "Untitled" ("we are caught")
and "Statement of Process" first appeared
in Poets at Work: Contemporary
PoetsŃLives, Poems, Process, ed.
Betty Cohen. Buffalo, NY: Just Buffalo
Literary Center, Inc., 1995.
"animals,"
"Elephant Blues," "For Hoyt Wilhelm,"
"The News," "Letters for MC," and
"Ghosts," first appeared in Lyman
Gilmore, "Don't Touch the Poet," North
Carolina Literary Review 2.2 (1995):
68-83.
The
Collected Later Poems, ed. Robert
J. Bertholf. Buffalo, NY: The Poetry
Collection, 1997.
