FIELD Magazine and other editorial work

In 1969, Young and five Oberlin colleagues founded the magazine FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Published twice annually for 50 years, FIELD featured the poetry of hundreds of writers, both celebrated and emerging, including Charles Wright, Sandra McPherson, Mark Strand, Adrienne Rich, Jean Valentine, Charles Simic, Philip Levine, William Stafford, Thomas Lux, Arthur Sze, Carol Potter, and Bob Hicok.^[11]

Under Young's editorial leadership, Oberlin College Press expanded in 1978 to publish books of translation in the FIELD Translation Series, including volumes by Anna Akhmatova, Vasko Popa, Yannis Ritsos, Max Jacob, and Dino Campana, and then in 1993 to publish contemporary poets in the FIELD Poetry Series, including Marianne Boruch, Russell Edson, Angie Estes, Jon Loomis, and Dennis Schmitz.^[12]

Young advanced interest in the prose poem and in magical realism with two anthologies. Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem (1995, co-edited with Stuart Friebert), featured prose poets such as Rimbaud, Kafka, Toomer, and the father of the prose poem, Aloysius Bertrand. Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984, co-edited with Keith Hollaman) included writers from Gogol to Borges to Kundera. He also co-edited (with Stuart Friebert and David Walker) A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and (with Stuart Friebert) The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.^[12]

Poetry

• Sweating Out the Winter, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969.
• Boxcars, Ecco Press, 1973.
• Work Lights: Thirty-Two Prose Poems, Cleveland State Poetry Center, 1977.
• The Names of a Hare in English, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979.
• Foraging, Wesleyan University Press, 1986.
• Earthshine, Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
• The Planet on the Desk: Selected and New Poems 1960-1990, Wesleyan University Press, 1991.
• Night Thoughts and Henry Vaughan, Ohio State University Press, 1994.
• At the White Window, Ohio State University Press, 2000.
• Black Lab, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
• Field of Light and Shadow, Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 2023.

Nonfiction

• Seasoning: A Poet’s Year, with Seasonal Recipes, Ohio State University Press, 1999.

Translations

• Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies: A New Translation, W.W. Norton, 1978.
• Günter Eich, Valuable Nail: Selected Poems, Oberlin College Press, 1981, with Stuart Friebert and David Walker.
• Miroslav Holub, Interferon, or On Theater, Oberlin College Press, 1982, with Dana Hábová.
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
• Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 1987, 2015.
• Miroslav Holub, Vanishing Lung Syndrome, Oberlin College Press, 1990, with Dana Hábová.
• Miroslav Holub, The Dimension of the Present Moment: Essays, Faber & Faber, 1990.
• Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Li Ho, Li Shang-Yin, Five T’ang Poets, Oberlin College Press, 1990.
• The Book of Fresh Beginnings: Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Oberlin College Press, 1994.
• Miroslav Holub, Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems, Oberlin College Press, 1996, with others.
• Miroslav Holub, Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions, Milkweed Editions, 1997.
• The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji, Wesleyan University Press, 1998, with Jiann I. Lin.
• The Poetry of Petrarch, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2004.
• Eugenio Montale, Selected Poems, Oberlin College Press, 2004, with Jonathan Galassi and Charles Wright.
• Out on the Autumn River: Selected Poems of Du Mu, Rager Media, 2007, with Jiann I. Lin.
• Du Fu: A Life in Poetry, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
• Paul Celan, From Threshold to Threshold, Marick Press, 2010.
• Paul Celan, Language Behind Bars, Marick Press, 2012.
• Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Bashō, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
• Paul Celan, No One’s Rose, Marick Press, 2014.
• Qin Guan, Moon as Bright as Water, Createspace Independent Pub, 2017, with William McNaughton.
• The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis, Pinyon Publishing, 2019, with Fred Lessing.
• Listening All Night to the Rain: Selected Poems of Su Dongpo, Pinyon Publishing, 2020, with Jiann I. Lin.

Literary criticism

• Something of Great Constancy: The Art of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", Yale University Press, 1966.
• The Heart’s Forest: A Study of Shakespeare’s Pastoral Plays, Yale University Press, 1972.
• Troubled Mirror: A Study of Yeats’s "The Tower", University of Iowa Press, 1987.
• The Action to the Word: Structure and Style in Shakespearean Tragedy, Yale University Press, 1990.
• Six Modernist Moments in Poetry, University of Iowa Press, 2006.
• Imagining Shakespeare’s "Pericles": A Story about the Creative Process, New Publisher, 2011.
• The King’s a Beggar: A Study of Shakespeare’s Epilogues, Archway, 2017.

Edited collections and anthologies

• Twentieth Century Interpretations of "Henry IV, Part 2": A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1968.
• A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Oberlin College Press, 1980, revised 1997, with Stuart Friebert and David Walker.
• The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Longman, 1983, revised 1989, with Stuart Friebert.
• Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology, Oberlin College Press, 1984, with Keith Hollaman.
• Shakespeare’s Middle Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays, Pearson, 1993.
• Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem, Oberlin College Press, 1995, with Stuart Friebert.