Poetry

• A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan Press, 1968)
• The Garden of Effort (Burning Deck, 1975)
• Shipwreck In Haven (Awede, 1989)
• The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander (Lost Roads, 1990)
• The Locality Principle (Avec, 1995)
• Analogies of Escape (Burning Deck, 1997)
• The Silhouette of the Bridge (Memory Stand-Ins) (Avec, 1997)
• Stone Angels (Instress, 1997)
• Well Well Reality (Collaborations with Rosmarie Waldrop) (The Post-Apollo Press, 1998)
• Haunt (Instance, 2000)
• Semiramis If I Remember (Avec, 2001)
• The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2003)
• The Real Subject: queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (Omnidawn, 2005)
• Several Gravities (Siglio, 2009)
• Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009)

Prose

• Hegel's Family (Station Hill, 1989)
• Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993)

Visual Art

• Several Gravities (Siglio Press, 2009)

Translations

• The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Wesleyan, 2006)
• Figured Image by Anne-Marie Albiach (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006)
• The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart by Jacques Roubaud (tr. with Rosmarie Waldrop) (Dalkey Archive, 2006)
• Theory of Prepositions by Claude Royet-Journoud (Fence, 2006)
• Another Kind of Tenderness by Xue Di with Forrest Gander (Litmus, 2004)
• Close Quote by Marie Borel (Burning Deck, 2003)
• Mental Ground by Esther Tellermann (Burning Deck, 2002)
• The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes (Station Hill Press, 1988)