Works
Laughlin's works include:
- In Another Country (1979)
- Selected Poems (1986)
- The House of Light (1986)
- Tabellae (1986)
- The Owl of Minerva (Copper Canyon Press, 1987)
- Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988)
- The Bird of Endless Time (Copper Canyon Press, 1989)
- Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992)
- Angelica (1992)
- The Man in the Wall (1993)
- The Country Road (1995)
- The Secret Room (1997)
- A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998)
- Byways: A Memoir (2005)
- The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006)
Laughlin's correspondence with William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller, Thomas Merton, Delmore Schwartz, Ezra Pound, and others has been published in a series of volumes issued by Norton.
One of Laughlin's most anthologized works is "Step on His Head", a poem about his relationship with his children.
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