Poetry

• Golden State (1973)
• The Book of the Body (1977)
• The Sacrifice (1983)
• In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965—90 (1990)
• Desire (1997) received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books, 2002), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
• Star Dust (2005), in two sections
• Watching the Spring Festival (2008)[1], Bidart's first book of lyrics

Other

• Editor, with David Gewanter, of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003)

• Wallace Stevens Award
• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award
• Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America
• The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981
• Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003
• Bollingen Prize in American Poetry (2007)