RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Charles Willeford

Books

* indicates a Hoke Moseley story.

• The Outcast Poets (Alicat Bookshop Press, 1947) (poetry, contains five poems by Willeford, along with poems by other writers; leaves in a decorated envelope)
• Proletarian Laughter (Alicat Bookshop Press, 1948) (poetry)
  • Seven prose "Schematics"
  • "Proletarian Laughter"
  • "In the Truck, In the Back"
  • "Reflection"
  • "In a Simple Search for Justice"
  • "Anniversary"
  • "The Tree, the Sky, the Sleeper"
  • "Theatre"
  • "We, Willeford, the People"
  • "Passion and Permanence"
  • "Death is My Brother"
  • "Eight Panes of Glass"
  • "In Case of Night"
  • "For Which I Sought and Saw It"
  • "The Responsibility of Command"
  • "Nothing"
  • "Soil Erotica"
  • "Rockabye"
  • "Continuity ..."
• High Priest of California (Royal Books Giant #G-20, 1953)
• Pick-Up (Beacon, 1955)
• High Priest of California/Wild Wives (Beacon #B130, 1956) (Wild Wives a.k.a. Until I Am Dead)
• Honey Gal (a.k.a. The Black Mass of Brother Springer) (Beacon #B160, 1958)
• Lust is a Woman (a.k.a. Made in Miami) (Beacon #B175, 1958)
• The Woman Chaser (original title The Director) (Newsstand Library #U137, 1960)
• Understudy for Love (original title The Understudy: A Novel About Men and Women) (Newsstand Library #U170, 1961)
• Whip Hand (original title Deliver Me From Dallas!) (New York: Gold Medal, 1961) (By W. Franklin Sanders; Willeford co-wrote it, but his name didn't make it into print)
• Cockfighter (Chicago Paperback House #B-120, 1962)
• No Experience Necessary (Newsstand Library #U182, 1962) (The first chapters are not Willeford's, and some parts were later re-used in Sideswipe)
• The Machine in Ward Eleven (Belmont, 1963)
  • "The Machine in Ward Eleven"
  • "Selected Incidents"
  • "A Letter to A.A. (Almost Anybody)"
  • "Jake's Journal"
  • "Just Like on Television -"
  • "The Alectryomancer"
• Poontang and Other Poems (New Athenaeum Press, 1967) (poetry)
  • "Poontang"
  • "Grendel's Dam"
  • "Sportsman"
  • "A Pastoral for Leroi Jones"
  • "Drive-in Sestina"
  • "Inroads"
  • "U.S. Tourist in Jerusalem"
  • "Perspective"
  • "The 2nd Half of the Double-feature"
  • "Limned"
  • "Basement Pastoral No. 2"
• The Burnt Orange Heresy (Crown, 1971)
• The Hombre from Sonora (Lenox Hill Press, 1971) (as Will Charles)
• A Guide for the Undehemorrhoided (self-published, 1977)
• Off the Wall: A True Life Novel (Pegasus Rex, 1980)
• Miami Blues* (St. Martin's, 1984)
• Grimhaven* (1985) (never published; depressing sequel in which Hoke kills his two daughters and tries to kill his ex-wife and her new husband)
• New Hope for the Dead* (St. Martin's, 1985)
• Something About a Soldier (Random House, 1986) (autobiography)
• New Forms of Ugly: The Immobilized Hero in Modern Fiction (Dennis McMillan, 1987) (expanded version of master's thesis)
• Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (Dennis McMillan, 1987) (Part two, the Hank Norton section, of The Shark-Infested Custard, with a different ending)
• Sideswipe* (St. Martin's, 1987)
• Cockfighter Journal (Santa Barbara: Maurice Neville Rare Books, 1988)
• Everbody's Metamorphosis (Dennis McMillan, 1988)
  • "Strange"
  • "Sentences"
  • "Checking Out"
  • "Give the Man a Cigar"
  • "To a Nephew in College"
  • "The Deserted Village"
  • "Nowhere for a Gone Cat"
  • "A Matter of Taste"
  • "The Old Man at the Bridge"
  • "Citizen's Arrest"
  • "Some Lucky License"
  • "The Man Who Loved Ann Landers"
  • "The Gardener and the Princess"
  • "An Actor Prepares"
  • "Warren & Lee"
  • "How I Learned Survival in the Age of Aquarius"
  • "A Scenario for Mr. Bigelow"
  • (Bibliography by Don Herron)
• I Was Looking for a Street (Woodstock, Vermont: Countryman Press, 1988) (autobiography)
• The Way We Die Now* (Random House, 1988)
• The Shark-Infested Custard (Novato, California: Underwood/Miller, 1993)
• The Difference (Tucson, Arizona: Dennis McMillan, 1999) (reprint of The Hombre from Sonora)

Lenox Hill Press was a subsidiary of Crown, who didn't want two new titles out from the same author, so The Hombre from Sonora came out under a pseudonym.

Screenplays

• Cockfighter (1974, from novel)

Adaptations

• Miami Blues (1990, from novel)

Actor

• Cockfighter (1974)
• Thunder and Lightning (1977)

References

• Everybody's Metamorphosis (Missoula, Montana: Dennis McMillan, 1988)
• Herron, Don. Willeford (Dennis McMillan, 1998)