Poetry

  • Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959)
  • The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956; published 1960) (meditations, koans, poems)
  • Scattered Poems (1945–1968; published 1971)
  • Book of Sketches (1952–1957)
  • Old Angel Midnight (1956; published 1973)
  • Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch)
  • Heaven and Other Poems (1957–1962; published 1977)
  • San Francisco Blues (1954; published 1991)
  • Pomes All Sizes (compiled 1960; published 1992)
  • Book of Blues (1954–1961)
  • Book of Haikus (published 2003)
  • Collected Poems (published 2012, volume 231 in Library of America) ISBN 9781598531947
  • Old Angel Midnight (City Lights Publishers, 2016 edition)