The Purse-Seine has been included in the following anthologies:

• The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th Edition, 2005; eds. Ferguson, Salter, & Stalworthy
• Twentieth-Century American Poetry, 2003; eds. Gioia, Mason, & Schoerke
• The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, 2003; ed. Albert Gelpi
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition, 2003; eds. Ramazani, Ellman, & O’Clair
• The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford, 2001; ed. Tim Hunt
• The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th Edition, 1996; eds. Ferguson, Salter, & Stalworthy
• The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Second Edition, 1988; eds. Ellman & O’Clair
• The New Oxford Book of American Verse, 1976; ed. Richard Ellman
• The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1973; eds. Ellman & O’Clair
• Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems, Vintage Books, 1965
• The Oxford Book of American Verse, 1950; ed. F.O. Matthiessen