Poetry
- Angel in Flames: Selected Poems & Translations 1967-2011, (Smokestack Books, 2011)
- Words Without Music, (privately printed limited edition, San Francisco, 2004)
- Oceania, (Azul Editions, 2008)
- Donatello’s Version, (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University
- Press, 2007)
- Raging Beauty: Selected Poems, (Azul Editions, 1994)
- Apollo Helmet, (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University
- Press, 1983)
- May Day, (Minnesota Review Press, 1980)
- Scrap Book, (Ziesing Brothers, 1977)
- Santiago Poems, (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 1975)
- Avenue of the Americas, (University of Massachusetts Press/Ziesing Brothers, 1971)
- Communications (with Grandin Conover), 1970
- The Marches, (Holt, 1967/Ziesing Brothers reprint), winner of the Lamont Poetry Award 1967
Translations
- Aias, Sophocles (Harper Perennial, 2012)
- Philoctetes, Sophocles (Harper Perennial, 2012)
- The Complete Plays of Sophocles A New Translation (with Robert Bagg), (Harper Perennial, 2011)
- Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus (Translated by James Scully & C. John Herrington), (Oxford University Press, 1975)
- Roque Dalton, Poetry and Militancy in Latin America, (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 1981)
- Teresa de Jesus, De Repente/All of A Sudden (with Maria A. Proser & Arlene Scully), (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 1979)
- Quechua Peoples Poetry (with Maria A. Proser), (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 1977)
Prose
- Vagabond Flags: Serbia & Kosovo (Journal, Scrapbook & Notes), (Azul Editions, 2009)
- Line Break: Poetry As Social Practice, (Bay Press/ Curbstone Press, Northwestern University Press, 1988/2005)
Anthologies
- Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Wm. Collins, Ltd. 1966)
- Modern Poetics (McGraw Hill, 1965)
Biography
- Man Ray’s Flatiron: Toward A Literary Autobiography Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series Gale Research, vol. 30, pp.201-235