Charles Stein is the author of ten books of poetry including THE HAT RACK TREE: SELECTED POEMS FROM THEFORESTFORTHETREES, 1980-1983 (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1994), Parts and Other Parts (1982), HORSE SACRIFICE (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1980), and Poems and Glyphs (1973). Robert Kelly has called Stein, " a poet with all the means of his craft at hand one of the smartest men of his generation, and one of its most exemplary poets." Stein also is the author of the critical study The Secret of The Black Chrysanthemum (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1987), a critical study of Charles Olson's poetry and prose, and the editor of Being = Space x Action: Searches for Freedom of Mind in Mathematics, Art and Mysticism (1998).
