"Summits Move With the Tide," subtitled (on the cover of the second edition) "Poems and a Play," is Berssenbrugge's second collection of poems. It was published by the Greenfield Review Press in 1974, and later in 1982. The acknowledgments page indicates that some of the poems previously appeared in "First Issue," "Intro 3," "East-West Journal," "Cathedral," "Ash Tree," "Gidra," and "Greenwood Press." In contrast to her later books, most of the poems in the collection are short, with only a few carrying over to new pages. Additionally, only two poems are broken into numbered stanzas, a format Berssenbrugge would use in later poems. The poems in the collection are organized into four groups: three groups of poems, and one play, "One, Two Cups."