• An Explanation of America.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.
• The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996.New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.
• History of My Heart.New York: Ecco Press, 1984.
• Mindwheel. [machine-readable data file] Robert Pinsky, author; Steve Hales and William Mataga, programmers. Richmond, CA: Synapse Software Corporation, 1984.
• Sadness and Happiness: Poems.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.
• The Want Bone.New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

Prose

• Landor's Poetry.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
• The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
• Poetry and the World.New York: Ecco Press, 1988.

Translations

• Dante, Alighieri. The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation.Translated by Robert Pinsky, with notes by Nicole Pinsky, and foreword by John Freccero. New York: Noonday Press, 1996.
• Milosz, Czeslaw. The Separate Notebooks: Poems.Translated by Renata Gorczynski, Robert Hass, and Robert Pinsky. New York: Ecco Press, 1984.