Bibliography of Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan (January 30, 1935 - September 14, 1984) was a beat and counterculture poet and novelist. He is most known for his novel "Trout Fishing in America" written in 1967. Brautigan had written eleven novels, ten collections of poetry, and one short story collection. His last written novel during his lifetime was "So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away" a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1982. He took his own life around September 14, 1984 at his home in Bolinas, California from a gunshot wound to the head. Two works of his were posthumously published which were the "The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings". A collection of all of Brautigan's poems which was published in 1999. And "", a novel written in 1982 but posthumously published in 2000.

Bibliography

Poetry

* "The Return of the Rivers", (1958)
* "The Galilee Hitch-Hiker", (1958)
* "Lay The Marble Tea", (1959)
* "The Octopus Frontier", (1960)
* "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", (1963)
* "Please Plant This Book", (1968)
* "The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster", (1968)
* "Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt", (1970)
* "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork", (1971, ISBN 0-671-22263-5)
* "June 30th June 30th", (1978, ISBN 0-440-04295-x)
* "The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings", (1999, ISBN 0-395-97469-0)

Fiction novels

* "A Confederate General From Big Sur", (January 22, 1964, ISBN 0-224-61923-3)
* "Trout Fishing in America", (October 12, 1967, ISBN 0-395-50076-1)
* "In Watermelon Sugar", (June 14, 1968, ISBN 0-440-34026-8)
* "", (March 23, 1971, ISBN 0-671-20872-1)
* "", (November 23, 1974, ISBN 0-671-21809-3)
* "", (1975, ISBN 0-671-22065-9)
* "", (1976, ISBN 0-671-22331-3)
* "", (1977, ISBN 0-440-02146-4)
* "The Tokyo-Montana Express", (1980 ISBN 0-440-08770-8)
* "So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away", (1982, ISBN 0-395-70674-2)
* "", (1994, ISBN 0-312-27710-5)

Essays

* "At Sea Wild Dogs", (July 17, 1965)
* "", (December 16, 1968)
* "The Old Lady", (1971)
* "The Silence of Flooded Houses", (1975)
* "Owl's: The CoEvolution Quarterly", (March 20, 1976)
* "Space Colonies", (1977, ISBN 0-140-04805-7)

hort story collections

* "Revenge of the Lawn", (October 1, 1971, ISBN 0-671-20960-4)

Uncollected short stories

* "A Gun for Big Fish", (1975)
* "The Short Story", (1979)
* "Walking Toward December", (1979)
* "The Last of What's Left", (1981)
* "Closet", (1981)
* "The Grasshopper's Mirror", (1981)
* "The Lost Tree", (1984)

Unpublished & uncollected poetry

* "All These Preludes to Dying"
* "At the Tomb of Mayakotsky"
* "Christmas, 1958"
* "The Christopher Columbus of Forgetting"
* "Circus"
* "Daughter of the Farm"
* "Dream"
* "End"
* "The Escape of the Owl"
* "The Eternal Automobile"
* "Eulogy"
* "Firefly"
* "The First Prize"
* "The Fishermen"
* "Forgotten"
* "The Forest Fire Dream"
* "The Fourth of July in December"
* "Fragment"
* "The Fur Coats"
* "Genesis"
* "Glass"
* "Halloween"
* "The Henry Thoreau Defect"
* "Housewife Poem"
* "Human Dignity"
* "The Ice Man"
* "Illumination"
* "It's Kite Time"
* "The Love Life of Adam Twelvetrees"
* "A Lyric for Coffee Dulcimer"
* "The Magic Wand"
* "The Memory of Gate Creek"
* "Milena"
* "The Morning Star"
* "My Heart Laid Bare"
* "Nightingale"
* "Octopus"
* "The Oil Wells"
* "Olympia"
* "Ornithology"
* "Quatrain"
* "Rockets"
* "Sanctuary"
* "The Spring Muse"
* "Sonnet-Because we live beside a Mexican airfield..."
* "Sonnet-The sea is like..."
* "Sunday"
* "Syntaxial Weather"
* "Three Days of History"
* "Three Greek Columns"
* "The Tired Poet"
* "The Eat High on the Hawk"
* "Translation"
* "The Twentieth of November Street"
* "The Whale Dance from Finnegan's Wake"

Television productions

* "So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away" (2000)
* "The Weather in Somerset" (2004)