He also plays the guitar and sings. Bibliography Poetry Sleep Watch, Wesleyan University Press, 1969 The Knife and Other Poems, Wesleyan University Press, 1980. Sewanee in Ruins, illustrated by Edward Carlos, University of the South, 1981. Fossils, Metal, and the Blue Limit, White Creek Press, 1982. Our Flag Was Still There (contains Sewanee in Ruins), Wesleyan University Press, 1984. A Quiet Pint in Kinvara, Salmon Publishing/Tir Eolas (Galway, Ireland), 1991. The Stonecutter's Hand, David R. Godine, 1995. Today in the Cafe Trieste, Salmon Publishing, 1997. Six Mile Mountain, Story Line Press, 2000. Richard Tillinghast Greatest Hits, Pudding House Publications, 2002, The New Life, Copper Beech Press, 2008. Selected Poems, Dedalus Press, 2009, Sewanee Poems,The Evergreen Press, 2009, Wayfaring Stranger, Word Palace Press, 2012, ; Anthologies (Contributor) Ten American Poets, Carcanet Press, 1974. "Rain"; "Convergence"; "Envoi", The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry, Editor Leon Stokesbury, University of Arkansas Press, 1999, "Father in October"; "His Days", New poems from the third coast: contemporary Michigan poetry, Editors Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry, Josie Kearns, Wayne State University Press, 2000, Memoirs Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur, University of Michigan Press, 1995. An extended autobiographical essay commissioned by Gale Research can be found in Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series, vol. 23, published in 1997. Essays Poetry and What Is Real, University of Michigan Press, 2004. Finding Ireland: a Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Journeys into the Mind of the World, University of Tennessee Press, 2017. Travel An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul: City of Forgetting and Remembering, Armchair Traveller at the bookHaus, 2012. print , ebook References External links Author website Review of An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul University of Michigan faculty Writers from Michigan 1940 births Living people People from Memphis, Tennessee American male poets Harvard University alumni Sewanee: The University of the South alumni