Fiction And Nonfiction

The Best Deal I Ever Made (Blue Suede Shoes, 1972) Story.
Hero Pills (Blue Suede Shoes, 1974) Stories.
Gush (Blue Wind Press, 1975) Novel.
Rhino Ritz (Blue Wind Press, 1979) Novel.            
        ibid.  German edition (1993)
Harum Scarum (Coffee House, 1984)  Stories. 
          ibid. German edition, Maroverlag (1989)
The First Thing Coming (Coffee House, 1987)  Stories.
           Totale Überraschung, Ein Roman In Kurzgeschichten German edition (1993)
Mordecai of Monterey (City Miner, 1985)  Novel.
Racer (Maroverlag 1993) German Edition Novel.
            (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006).
Downstream From Trout Fishing From America: a memoir of Richard Brautigan (Capra Press, 1989)  Nonfiction. 
          Un rêveur à Babylone (L’Incertain, 1992) French edition.   
          Un rêveur à Babylone (Domaine Etranger, 1991) 
The Last Part Of The First Thing Coming (Grey Spider, 1991)  Story.
Skin and Bone (Tangram, 1992) Story.
The French Girl (Rodent, 1996)  Stories.
Downstream, an excerpt  (The Beat Scene Press, 1999) Memoir.
Richard Brautigan: The Edna Webster Collection (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) Introduction.
Jack's Haiku Letter to Gary, Beat Scene, ed "This is the Beat Generation" (2022)
Rhino Ritz, partial translation of Rhino Ritz into Dutch by H. van der Vegt (Terras, 2023)
Beat Scene, expected (2024)
Mordecai of Monterey, a story by Keith Abbott, retold by Persephone Abbott (2024)

Poetry

Dumptruck (Cranium Press, 1967)
Putty (Cranium Press, 1970)
Moving Postures (Snazzy Wah Press, 1970)
Short Change (Snazzy Wah Press, 1970)
Thin & Thin (Blue Suede Shoes, 1971)
Blue Suede Shoes, (editor 1971)
2X with Michael Sowl
The Closet (Blue Suede Shoes, 1972)
Joie de Vivre (Blue Suede Shoes, 1972).
Treys (The Other End, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1972)
Milk Quarterly (editor 1973)
Being Alone With A Girl (Blue Suede Shoes 1974)
Erase Words (Blue Suede Shoes, 1974)
Red Lettuce (The Fault, 1974)
12 Shot (Z Press, 1975)
Erase Words (Blue Wind, 1975) Expanded edition.
The Book of Rimbaud (New Rivers, 1977)
What You Know With No Name For It (Cranium, 1976)
Out There 9 with Rose Lesniak, Ted Berrigan (1976)
Word Nests (Privately printed, 1979)
Clown War 6 with B. Andrews, J. Beame, R. Beck, C. Bernstein, L. Gontarek, N.   Hudson, S. Lawrence, F.A. Nettelbeck, F.Picabia, B. Rosenthal, R. Vance, and S. Young (1981)
Good News Bad News (Doris Green Editions, 1984)
Flashes (Kavayantra, 1996)
Twisty Chunks (Kavayantra, 1997)
Ballads (Blue Suede Shoes, 2034)
All Ears (Empty Head, 2004)
Next Door to Samsara (Fell Swoop, 2004)
Poetry for Sale with Sandy Berrigan, Gloria Frym, Steven Lavoie, Joen Eshima Moore, Maureen Owen, Michael Sowl, and John Veglia (2015)

Selected Anthologies: Fiction and Poetry

Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull, 2006)
Autumn Trout Gathering: Looking Back at Richard Brautigan (MacFarland Press, 2006)
Merrill At Sixty (Prairie Rose Press, 2005)
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, ed. Dodd (Free Press 2005)
Rimbaud Après Rimbaud Claude Jeancolas, ed. (Except Collection Textual, 2004)
Thus Spake The Corpse, Vol. I, II ed. Codrescu. (Black Sparrow, 1999)
American Poets Say Goodbye To The 20th Century (Four Walls, 1998)
What Book, ed. Gary Gach. (Parallax Press, 1998)
Black Ice, ed. Mark Amerika. (Altx. Website. 1998)
Biennale 96, ed. Minganti (La Biennale di Venezia, 1996).Degenerative Prose, ed. Amerika & Sukenick (Black Ice, 1995)
Beat Generation, ed. Minganti (Communa di Cesena, 1994)
Rosarot and Katzenjammer (Luchterhand, 1992)
Out of This World, ed. Anne Waldman, (Harmony/Crown, 1991) 
Hands, Joining. Poet Calligraphers, ed. Green (Brooding Heron Press, 1988)
Black Box, Anthology of American & German Writers (Maroverlag, 1988)
Concert at Chopin’s House, Polish/American Writing, ed.  Minczeski, (New Rivers, 1988)
Up Late, ed. Andrei Codrescu (4 Walls 8 Windows, 1987).
The Best of California, ed.  Harold Hayes, (Capra, 1986).
Men Talk, ed.  Fried & Singer. (Pacific House Books, 1985).
Parkplatz Fur Johnny Weismuller, American Writing on Hollywood, ed. Ohnemus, (Machwerk Verlag, 1984).
Das Rowohlt Abenteuer Lesebuch, Travel Writing, (Rowohlt, 1984).
Sweet Little Sixteen. Growing Up In America, ed. Jurgen Schoenich, (Rowohlt, 1983).
City Country Miners, ed. Michael Helm, (City Miner, 1982).
Broadway, ed. James Schuyler & Paul Violi, (Magpie, 1981).
Nuovo Romanzo Americano, Selections and Interviews with NewAmerican Novelists, ed.  Franco La Polla (Carte Segrete, 1980).
Califea. California Writers, ed. Ishmael Reed, (Wingbow, 1979).
The Little Magazine in America, ed. Newman & Kinzie, (Pushcart Press 1978).
The Big House (Ailanthus, 1979).
Omens From The Flight of Birds, ed. Vincent, (Momo’s Press, 1977).
The Story So Far  (Coach House, 1975).
Another World, ed. Anne Waldman, (Bobbs-Merrill, 1972).
Under 30, ed. Newman (Indiana Univ.  Press, 1969).
Cannery Row Anthology, ed. Nolan, (Polygon Press, 1966).

Selected Screenplays

The First Thing Coming.  Adaptation of “Spanish Castle”.  Keith Abbott and Ozzie Cheek.  (Ziji Productions,  2004)

Translations

Keith Kumasen Abbott’s fiction and poetry have been translated into French, German, Czech, Russian, Romanian and Italian.  Fiction: Racer, Harum Scarum (Maroverlag, 1985, 1989), Rhino Ritz and The First Thing Coming, (Palmenpresse, 1992) have been published in German.  Downstream From Trout Fishing In America was twice issued in French and selections from the Brautigan memoir Un rêveur à Babylone were quoted by critic Jean-Luc Douin in his omnibus review “Brautigan Generation” (Le Monde, October 1, 2004) discussing the new translations of ten Brautigan titles by writer and critic Marc Chenetier.  Abbott’s fiction was included in the study Un Posto Nella Mente, Il Nuovo Romanzo Americano  Franco La Polla (Longo Editore Ravenna, 1983).