- The Window (1960)
- Columbus: A Contemporary Epic (1962)
- North!North! (1965)
- The Unknown Country (1970)
- The Return To Long Ta (1971)
- Lapsing into Grace (1976)
- Between North and South (1982)
- Wilderness of Plenty (1988)
- Lyric Apocalypse (1989)
- New and Selected Poems (1994)
- No Time To Say Nothing: A Memoir (1997)
- Long Lake: Where The North Woods Meets the Prairie (2004)
- Woodstoves: A Biography (2005)
- I See the Animals and They See Me (2014)
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellow (1978)
- Fulbright Grant (1983)
- PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction (1999)