Poetry/Fiction
- Sleepers Joining Hands (1973)
- This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood (1977)
- The Man in the Black Coat Turns (1981)
- Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1985)
- Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart (1992)
- Eating the Honey of Words (1999)
- The Sibling Society (1996)
- My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2015)
Non-fiction
- American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity (1990)
- Iron John: A Book About Men (1990)
- The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (1996)
- The Sibling Society (1996)
- The Great Mother: An Anniversary Anthology of Ancient and Contemporary Poetry (1996)
- The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men (1992)
- The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir (2004)
- My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2015)
translations
- Kabir (poems translated from Old Hindi) (2004)
- News of the Universe: Poems of Hafiz (versions from the Persian) (2008)
Bly also authored or co-authored many other influential and widely cited non-fiction and poetic works across the span of his seven-decade creative and literary career..