Poetry

Collections

• Dismantlements of Silence : Poems Selected and New (2015)
• The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize
• Winter Light
• One Way to Reconstruct The Scene. Yale University Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-300-02503-3.
• Landscape and Journey
• The Bones Poems

List of poems

• BITTERROOT: INTERNATIONAL POETRY QUARTERLY TENTH ANNIVERSARY, Menke Katz (editor-in-chief), VOLUME X NUMBER 4 ISSUE 40, SUMMER 1972
• The Ohio Poem, Hudson Review, Spring 1982, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p69-70, 2p^[3]
• Artful Dodge, Issue 26/27 (1994)^[4]
• THE BRIDGE: A JOURNAL OF FICTION & POETRY VOLUME, Jack Zucker (editor), 6 NUMBER 2 FALL / WINTER 1997
• FOUR QUARTERS, John J. Keenan(editor), VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, SECOND SERIES FALL, 1994
• A visit to Manafon, The New Criterion, April 1997
• Deserter; A Corpse in Gloves; Tracks, The Courtland Review, Issue Four, August 1998
• Courtyard looking toward Artemis from the west cloister, The New Criterion, December 2001
• SPECIAL ISSUE: POETRY TOUR GUIDE U.S. 62, Pudding 44, Summer 2002, 54 pages^[5]
• The Staying, Leaves, and The Singing,, The Gettsburg Review, Autumn Spring 2002^[6]
• The Other, AGNI 59, 2004^[7]
• A Vision in Late Afternoon, The Gettsburg Review, Autumn 2005^[8]
• Morning; Seasons; Sentinel, Webber The Contemporary West, Spring/Summer 2006, Volume 22.3
• Photographs; Weather Report; The Writer, Webber The Contemporary West, Fall 2008, Volume 25.1

Criticism

• William Virgil Davis (January 1, 1992). Critical Essays on Robert Bly. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87249-591-3.
• William Virgil Davis (1993). Miraculous Simplicity. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-265-1.
• William Virgil Davis (2007). R.S. Thomas. Baylor University Press. ISBN 978-1-932792-49-2.
• George Whitefield's Journals, 1737–1741, Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints,1969. Editor
• Understanding Robert Bly, University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
• Robert Bly: The Poet and His Critics, Camden House Publishers, 1994.

• Naomi Shihab Nye; Paul B. Janeczko, eds. (1999). I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-689-81341-2.
• Ray González, ed. (1996). Inheritance of light. University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-57441-013-6.
• Nancy C. McAlister; Robert Waters Grey, eds. (1976). WHITE TRASH: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poets.