Translations
Available online
- René Char:
- poems in Pith, Summer 2000 (vol. 2 no. 2)
- The Companions in the Garden, Here's to the Snake, Jacquemard and Julia, Not to be Understood, The Shark and the Seagull, and The Library is On Fire, all in The Brooklyn Rail's poetry section, Dec 07/Jan 08 issue
- Stéphane Mallarmé, "Igitur" at Studio Cleo
- Pierre Reverdy, "Belle Étoile/ Under the Stars," at Brindin Press (1991)
- Raymond Roussea, "Bertha, The Child-Flower"
- Jacques Roubaud, "Among Many Poems" in Poetry, 2000
- Tristan Tzara (et al), "Dada Manifesto" at RALPH, Early Mid-Summer, 2001 (vol. 25, no. 4)
Monographs
- Furor & Mystery and Other Poems by René Char (translated and edited by Nancy Kline and Caws) Black Widow Press, 2011
- The Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos: A Bilingual Anthology, Black Widow Press, 2007
- Capital of Pain (Paul Eluard, newly translated and edited by Caws, Nancy Kline, and Patricia Terry), Black Widow Press, 2006
- Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology (revised edition, with additional poems; translated and edited by Jean-Pierre Cauvin and Caws), Black Widow Press, 2006
- Revised edition of Approximate Man and Other Writings (by Tristan Tzara, translated and edited by Caws), Black Widow Press, 2005
- Ostinato (Louis-René des Forêts,), University of Nebraska Press, 2001
- Mallarmé in Prose (Stéphane Mallarmé), ed. and co-tr., New Directions, 2001
- Break of Day = Point du jour (André Breton), co-tr. and co-ed., University of Nebraska Press, 1999
- Selected Poems of René Char (co-tr. and co-ed. with Tina Jolas), New Directions, 1991
- Selected Poems of Pierre Reverdy, ed. and co-tr., Wake Forest University Press, 1991
- Antonin Artaud: Portraits and Drawings, (Jacques Derrida and Paule Thevenin), Abbeville Press, 1990; abridgement published as The Secret Art of Antoinin Artaud, MIT Press, 1998
- Robert Motherwell (Marcelin Pleynet), Rizzoli International, 1990. Daniel Papierski, 1990.
- Communicating Vessels (André Breton), University of Nebraska Press, 1989
- Mad Love (André Breton), University of Nebraska Press, 1988
- Selected Poems of St-John Perse, New Directions, 1982
- Cinema Calendrier du Coeur Abstrait, Maisons(Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp), Thomas Press, 1983
- Poems of André Breton, co-tr., University of Texas Press, 1982 (reprinted 1991)
- Selected Poems and Prose of Stéphane Mallarmé New Directions, 1982
- Roof Slates and other Poems of Pierre Reverdy, co-tr., Northeastern University Press, 1981
- Poems of René Char, co-tr., Princeton University Press, 1976
- Approximate Man and Other Writings (Tristan Tzara), Wayne State University Press, 1974
Shorter Works
- Nicole Brossard, "Leaps of Silence Clinging to the Eyelashes," in Provincetown Arts 2005
- Contemporary Poetry in French special issue of Poetry, 2002
- Yves Bonnefoy, "Igitur and the Photographer," part I, in Stéphane Mallarmé: Painter among the Poets, Hunter College Art Galleries, 1999
- Yves Bonnefoy, "Igitur and the Photographer," part II, PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association, May 1999 (vol. 114, no. 3)
- Victor Hugo for Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces (6th expanded edition), 1995
- René Char for Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry, Norton, 1992
- René Char's "Visage nuptial" ("The Nuptial Countenance") and "Le Marteau sans maître" ("The Hammer with No Master") for Pierre Boulez Concerts, January 1989
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