Manroot Books, 1976 Gauguin's Chair: Selected Poems 1967-1974, Crossing Press, 1977 Hawthorne, Red Hill Press, San Francisco, 1977 The Drowned Man to the Fish, New Rivers Press 1978 Ikagnak: The North Wind, Kenmore Press, 1978 Celebrities: In Memory of Margaret Dumont, Sombre Reptiles, 1981 The Picnic in the Snow: Ludwig of Bavaria, New Rivers Press, 1982 What John Dillinger Meant to Me, Sea Horse Press, 1983 Love Poems For Robert Mitchum, Chiron Review Press, 1983 Hawker, Unicorn Press, 1984 Kane, Unicorn Press, 1985 Shaker Light, Unicorn Press, 1986 Ludwig of Bavaria: Poems and a Play, Revised edition, Cherry Valley Edition, 1986 The Blood Countess: Poems and a Play, Cherry Valley Edition, 1987 Haydon, Unicorn Press, 1988 Breughel's Pig, Illuminati Press, Los Angeles, 1990 Good Night, Paul, GLB Publishers, 1992 Snapshots For a Serial Killer, GLB Publishers, 1992 Robert Peters: Poems: Selected & New, 1967-1991, Asylum Arts, 1992 Familial Love and Other Misfortunes, Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, 2002 Makars' Dozens, Pearl Edition, Long Beach, California 2006 Criticism, scholarship, and other publications Victorians on Literature and Art, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 America: The Diary of a Visit, By Edmund Gosse, edited by Robert Peters Purdue University 1966 The Crowns of Apollo: Swinburne's Principles of Literature and Art, Wayne State University The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Ed. with H.Schueller, 3 vols, Wayne State University Press, 1967–1969 Pioneers of Modern Poetry, with George Hitchcock, Kayak Press, 1967 Gabriel: A Poem by John Addington Symonds, Edited by Robert Peters & Timothy D'Arch Smith, London: Harrington 1974 The Great American Poetry Bakee-Off I, II, III, IV Series, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey 1979, 1982, 1987, & 1991 The Peters' Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, first and second series, Cherry Valley Editions, New York, 1983 and 1985 The Peters' Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, third series, Dustbooks, 1987 Hunting the Snark: American Poetry at Century End: Classifications and Commentary, Paragon House, New York 1989 Letters to a Tutor: The Tennyson Family Letters to Henry Graham Dakyns, Scarecrow Press, 1989 Where the Bee Sucks: Workers, Drones & Queens of Contemporary American Poetry, Asylum Arts, 1994 SLIME The Secret Sex-Life of J. Edgar Hoover, Artist Eric Reynolds Eros Comix 1995 Revised Edition of Hunting The Snark: American Poetry at Century End: Classifications and Commentary, Avisson Press, 1997 Ludwig of Bavaria & Other Short Plays, Asylum Arts, 2001 Memoirs Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood