Full-length Collections

  • Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate (Ecco, 2023)

  • The Government Lake: Last Poems (Ecco, 2019)

  • Dome of the Hidden Pavilion (Ecco, 2015)

  • The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990-2010 (Ecco, 2012)

  • The Ghost Soldiers (Ecco, 2008)

  • Return to the City of White Donkeys (Ecco, 2004)

  • Memoir of the Hawk (Ecco, 2002)

  • Shroud of the Gnome (Ecco, 1997)

  • Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems (Ecco, 1994)

  • Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1991)

  • Distance from Loved Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)

  • Reckoner (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)

  • Constant Defender (Ecco, 1983)

  • Riven Doggeries (Ecco, 1979)

  • Viper Jazz (Wesleyan University Press, 1976)

  • Absences: New Poems (Little, Brown & Co., 1972)

  • Hints to Pilgrims (Halty Ferguson, 1971)

  • The Oblivion Ha-Ha (Little, Brown & Co., 1970)

  • The Lost Pilot (Yale University Press, 1967)