As author
- Salvador Dalí (Critical Lives series) Reaktion Books page (publisher); University of Chicago page (distributor); 2008
- Provençal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France, Pegasus Books, 2008
- Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- Surprised in Translation, University of Chicago Press, 2006. An excerpt is online at the PEN American Center.
- Henry James (Illustrated Lives), Overlook, 2006
- Pablo Picasso (Critical Lives series) Reaktion Books page (publisher); University of Chicago page (distributor); 2005
- To the Boathouse: A Memoir, University of Alabama, 2004
- Marcel Proust (Illustrated Lives), Overlook, 2003 (Featured at Chicago Humanities Festival, November, 2003)
- Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush, Reaktion, 2003
- Virginia Woolf (Ilustrated Lives), Penguin, 2001; Overlook, 2002
- Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind, Thames and Hudson, 2000
- Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar, Little, Brown, 2000; Dora Maar With and Without Picasso: A Biography, Thames and Hudson (London), 2000; Picasso's Weeping Woman: A Life and Art of Dora Maar, Bulfinch; Les Vies de Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les surrealistes, Thames and Hudson (Paris); Dora Maar con y sin Picasso, Destino; Dora Maar: Die Kunsterin an Picassos Seite, Nicolai
- Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends, written with Sarah Bird Wright, Oxford University Press, 2000
- Carrington & Lytton: Alone Together, No. 6 in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series, Cecil Woolf Publishers, 1998
- Bloosmbury in Cassis, No. 4 in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series, Cecil Woolf Publishers, 1998
- Staging Surrealism, co-written with Donna De Salvo, catalogue for Wexner Center's "Surrealism and the Art of Display" exhibition, 1998
- The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter, MIT Press, 1997
- André Breton, Revisited, Twayne, 1996
- Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds, Columbia University Press, 1995 (supported by a grant from the Getty Foundation)
- Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990
- The Art of Interference: Stressed Readings in Verbal and Visual Texts, Princeton University Press, 1989
- Edmond Jabès, Editions Rodopi, 1988
- Reading Frames in Modern Fiction, Princeton University Press, 1985
- Yves Bonnefoy, Twayne, 1984
- L'Oeuvre filante de René Char, Nizet, 1981
- A Metapoetics of the Passage: Architextures in Surrealism and After, University Press of New England, 1981
- The Eye in the Text: Essays on Perception, Mannerist to Modern, Princeton University Press, 1981
- La Main de Pierre Reverdy, Droz, 1979
- The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos, University of Massachusetts Press, 1979
"Introduction" at Kicking Giants - René Char, Twayne, 1977
- The Presence of René Char, Princeton University Press, 1976
- André Breton, Twayne, 1973
- The Inner Theatre of Recent French Poetry: Cendrars, Tzara, Peret, Artaud, Bonnefoy, Princeton University Press, 1972
- The Poetry of Dada and Surrealism: Aragon, Breton, Tzara, Eluard, Desnos, Princeton University Press, 1970
- Surrealism and the Literary Imagination: A Study of Gaston Bachelard and André Breton, Mouton, 1966
As editor
- Inventing the Real: Edith Wharton and Henry James, Feminist Press, 2008
- Surrealism, Phaidon (Themes and Movements), 2004
- Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry (ed. and co-tr.), Yale University Press, 2004
- Maria Jolas: Woman of Action, University of South Carolina Press, 2004
- Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings, Palgrave, 2002; paper, 2003
- Surrealist Love Poems (also co-tr.), Tate Modern Museum, 2001; University of Chicago Press, 2002; reprint, 2003
- The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe, for the British Academy, 2000; (co-ed. with Nicola Luckhurst) Continuum, 2001
- MANIFESTO: A century of Isms, Modernist Manifestos and Statements, University of Nebraska Press, 2001
- The Surrealist Painters and Poets, M.I.T. Press, 2001; paper, 2002
- Around Yves Bonnefoy (co-ed.), L'Esprit Créateur, 1997
- Écritures de Femmes: Nouvelles Cartographies (co-ed. with Mary Jean Green, Marianne Hirsch, Ronnie Scharfman), Yale University Press, 1996
- Free Rein (by André Breton, translated by Michael Parmentier and Jaqueline D'amboise; French Modernist Library Series), co-ed., University of Nebraska Press, 1995
"Introduction" available online at Studio Cleo - Carto-graphies (co-ed. with Mary Jean Green, Marianne Hirsch, Ronnie Scharfman), Yale University Press, 1995
- Contre-Courants: Les femmes s'écrivent à travers les siècles, (co-ed. with Nancy K. Miller, Elizabeth Houlding, and Cheryl Morgan), Prentice Hall, 1994
- HarperCollins World Reader (Chief Editor), HarperCollins, 1994
- Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Journals, Letters, and Files, Thames and Hudson, 1994
- Surrealism and Women (co-ed. with Ruedi Kuenzli and Gwen Raaberg), M.I.T. Press, 1991
- City Images, Gordon and Breach, 1991
- Reading Proust Now, (co-ed. with Eugène Nicole), Peter Lang, 1990
- Ecrire le livre autour d'Edmond Jabès (co-ed. with Richard Stamelman), Editions de la Montagne, 1989
- Perspectives on Perception: Philosophy, Art, and Literature, Peter Lang, 1988
- Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, Modern Language Association, 1986
- Writing in a Modern Temper: Essays on French Literature and Thought in Honor of Henri Peyre, Anma Libri, 1984
- Le texte et son double (Le Siècle éclaté), Minard, 1985
- About French Poetry from Dada to Tel Quel: Theory and Text, Wayne State University Press, 1984
- The Prose Poem in France (co-ed. with Hermine Riffaterre), Columbia University Press, 1983
- Théorie/Tableau/Texte (Le Siècle éclaté), Minard, 1983
- Le Manifeste et le caché (Le Siècle éclaté), Minard, 1981
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