Books • • • • • 2013:
So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems, translated into Swedish by Dan Shafran (Coffee House Press) • 2011:
Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments (Princeton University Press, ) • 2010:
The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press) • 2009:
The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Princeton University Press) • 2008:
Jealous Witness: New Poems (with a CD by the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars) (Coffee House Press) • 2007:
Submarinul iertat, with Ruxandra Cesereanu, Timişoara, Romania: Editura Brumar; translated by Andrei Codrescu, as
The Forgiven Submarine, Black Widow Press, 2009. • 2007:
Femeia neagră a unui culcuş de hoţi, Bucharest: Editura Vinea. • 2006:
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City, New York and Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. • 2006:
Miracol şi catastrofă: Dialogues in Cyberspace with Robert Lazu, Timişoara, Romania: Editura Hartman. • 2005:
Instrumentul negru. Poezii, 1965-1968, (Editura Scrisul Romanesc) • 2004:
Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair (Dali Museum) • 2004:
Wakefield: a novel, New York and Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. • 2003:
It Was Today: New Poems Minneapolis: Coffee House Press • 2002:
Casanova in Bohemia, a novel New York: The Free Press • 2001:
An Involuntary Genius in America’s Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards), Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, Re-issue of
The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius, 1976, and ''In America's Shoes'', 1983, with new forward and coda-essay. • 2000:
The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press. Essays. • 2000:
Poezii alese/Selected Poetry, bi-lingual edition, English and Romanian Bucharest: Editura Paralela 45. • 1999:
A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978 Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press. • 1999:
Messiah, a novel. New York: Simon & Schuster. • 1999:
Hail Babylon! Looking for the American City at the End of the Millennium. New York: St. Martin's Press 1999, New York and London: Picador, 1999. Essays. • 1999:
Ay, Cuba! A Socio-Erotic Journey. With photographs by David Graham. New York: St. Martin's Press, New York and London: Picador. Travel/Essay. • 1997:
The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere. New York: St. Martin's Press, New York and London: Picador. • 1996:
Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press. • 1995:
The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans. New York: St. Martin's Press. New York and London: Picador, 1996. Essays. • 1995:
The Blood Countess. New York: Simon & Schuster. New York: Dell. • 1995:
Zombification: Essays from NPR. New York: St. Martin's Press. New York and London: Picador. • 1994:
The Repentance of Lorraine, New York: Rhinoceros Books. Reprint with new introduction of 1976 Pocketbooks edition by Ames Claire) • 1993:
Belligerence, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. • 1993:
Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century, with photographs by David Graham. A journal of the making of the movie Road Scholar. New York: Hyperion. • 1991: ''The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution'' (New York: Morrow. New York: Avon. • 1991:
Comrade Past and Mister Present, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. • 1990:
The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape. Boston: Addison-Wesley Co.1990; reissued by Ruminator Press, 2001 • 1988:
A Craving for Swan, Columbus: Ohio State University Press. • 1987:
Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. • 1987:
Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research, Boston: Addison-Wesley. • 1983:
In America’s Shoes, San Francisco: City Lights. • 1983:
Selected Poems 1970-1980, New York: Sun Books. • 1982:
Necrocorrida. San Francisco: Panjandrum Books. • 1979:
The Lady Painter, Boston: Four Zoas Press. • 1978:
For the Love of a Coat, Boston: Four Zoas Press. • 1975:
The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius. New York: George Braziller. • 1974:
The Marriage of Insult & Injury. Woodstock: Cymric Press. • 1973:
The History of the Growth of Heaven. New York: George Braziller. • 1973:
A Serious Morning. Santa Barbara: Capra Press. • 1971:
Why I Can’t Talk on the Telephone, San Francisco: kingdom kum press. •
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