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POETRY

	Swallow The Lake, 1970 (National Council on the Arts Award winner, 1970)
	Symptoms and Madness, 1971
	Private Line, 1971
	The Cotton Club, 1971
	The Syncopated Cakewalk, 1974
	Inside Diameter: The France Poems, 1985
	Surfaces and Masks, 1988
	Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni etc., 1989
	Parking Lots, 1992
	Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998, (National Book Award finalist, 1999)
	Waiting for Sweet Betty, Copper Canyon Press, 2002
	Myself Painting, 2008

FICTION

	All-Night Visitors, 1969, 1998
	Reflex and Bone Structure, 1975, 1982, 1996 (Prix Maurice Edgar Coindreau Award nominee France, 1982)
	Emergency Exit, 1979
	Such Was The Season, 1987, 1990 (Literary Guild selection, 1987)
	My Amputations, 1986 (Western States Book Award, 1986)
	Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar, 1988, 1996 (New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, 1988)
	Dirty Bird Blues, 1996, 1997
	One Flesh, Kensington Books, 2003
	My Amputations, 2008

SHORT-STORIES

Fun & Games, 1990

NON-FICTION

	Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, 1971
	The Dark and Feeling, 1974
	Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang, 1994 (Alternate Selection, Readers’ Subscription Book Club, 1994, Village Voice Literary Supplement’s "Lit Hits" list, 1994)
	The Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism, 2001
	Conversations with Clarence Major edited by Nancy Bunge, University Press of Mississippi, 2002

ANTHOLOGIES

	The New Black Poetry, 1969
	Calling The Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories, 1993 (Book of The Month’s Club’s Quality Paperback Book Club Selection, 1993)
	The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry, 1996 (The Readers’ Subscription Book Club Selection, 1996)
	Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist, 2001