Books available from the author
A Chapbook: Some Three Dozen Miniatures from Karl Elder’s Rubber Band Bound Batches of Random Locutions. Sheboygan. Lakeland: The Magazine of Lakeland College. Vol. 1.3 Spring, 2007. (poems)
The Minimalist’s How-to Handbook. Parallel Press. Madison. 2005. (poems)
Mead: Twenty-six Abecedariums. Marsh River Editions. Marshfield. 2005. (poems)
The Geocryptogrammatist’s Pocket Compendium of the United States. R.S. Endowment Editions.
Plymouth. 2001. (poem)
A Man in Pieces. Prickly Pear Press. Austin. 1994. (poems)
What Is the Future of Poetry? Seems Press. Sheboygan. 1991. [third printing]. (Editor)
Phobophobia. Prickly Pear Press. Austin. 1987. [out of print]. (poems)
The Celibate. Prickly Pear Press. Austin. 1982. [out of print]. (poems)
Can’t Dance an’ It’s Too Wet to Plow. Prickly Pear Press. Dallas. 1975. [out of print]. (poems)
Pamphlet
A Poet: Karl Elder. Realities Library. San Jose. [out of print]. 1984.