"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn." JOHN UPDIKE
Poetry
(1958) The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures
(1963) Telephone Poles
(1969) Midpoint
(1977) Tossing and Turning
(1985) Facing Nature
(1993) Collected Poems 1953-1993
(2001) Americana: And Other Poems
(2009) Endpoint: And Other Poems
Burning Trash
Dance of the Solids
Ex Basketball Player
Flight to Limbo
Food
Food
It is always there,
Man’s real best friend.
It never bites back;
it is already dead.
It never tells us we are lousy lovers
or asks us for interview.
It simply begs, Take me;
it cries out, I’m yours.
Mush me all up, it says;
Whatever is you, is pure.
Pura Vida
Returning Native
Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children
Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers
Venetian Candy
Novels
(1959) The Poorhouse Fair
(1960) Rabbit Run
(1963) The Centaur
(1965) Of the Farm
(1968) Couples
(1971) Rabbit Redeux
(1975) A Month of Sundays
(1976) Marry Me
(1978) The Coup
(1981) Rabbit is Rich
(1984) Witches of Eastwick
(1986) Robert's Version
(1988) S.
(1990) Rabbit at Rest
(1992) Memories of the Ford Administration
(1994) Brazil
(1995) Rabbit Angstrom
(1996) In the Beauty of the Lilies
(1997) Toward the End of TIme
(2000) Gertrude and Claudius
(2002) Seek My Face
(2004) Villages
(2006) Terrorist
(2008) The Widows of Eastwick
Short Stories
(1959) The Same Door
(1962) Pigeon Feathers
(1964) Olinger Stories: A Selection
(1966) The Music School
(1970) Bech: A Book
(1972) Museums and Women
(1979) Problems and Other Stories
(1979) Too Far to Go: A Selection
(1982) Bech is Back
(1987) Trust Me
(1994) The Afterlife
(1998) Bech at Bay
(2000) Lick of Love
(2001) The Complete Henry Bech
(2003) The Early Stories 1953-1975
(2009) My Father's Tears and Other Stories
(2009) The Maples Stories
Essays and Criticisms:
(1965) Assorted Prose
(1975) Picked-Up Pieces
(1983) Hugging the Shore
(1989) Just Looking
(1991) Odd Jobs
(1996) Golf Dreams:Writings on Golf
(1999) More Matter
(2005) Still Looking
(2007) Due Considerations
Children's Books:
(1962) The Magic Flute
(1964) The Ring
(1965) A Child's Calendar
(1969) Bottom's Dream
(1996) A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects
Plays and Memoirs:
(1974) Buchanan Dying
(1989) Self Consciousness