Selected Poems (1986) The House of Light (1986) Tabellae (1986) The Owl of Minerva (Copper Canyon Press, 1987) Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988) The Bird of Endless Time (Copper Canyon Press, 1989) Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992) Angelica (1992) The Man in the Wall (1993) The Country Road (1995) The Secret Room (1997) A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998) Byways: A Memoir (2005) The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006) Laughlin's correspondence with William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller, Thomas Merton, Delmore Schwartz, Ezra Pound, and others has been published in a series of volumes issued by Norton. One of Laughlin's most anthologized works is "Step on His Head", a poem about his relationship with his children. Further reading Ian S. MacNiven: "Literchoor is my beat" : a life of James Laughlin, publisher of New Directions, New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014, References External links Laughlin reads some of his works James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets I quadri di James Laughlin James Laughlin Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1914 births 1997 deaths American book publishers (people) American people of Irish descent Writers from Pittsburgh Choate Rosemary Hall alumni Harvard Advocate alumni People from Wallingford, Connecticut 20th-century American poets 20th-century American businesspeople People from Norfolk, Connecticut