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The Good Earth: Three Poets of the Prairie
Paul Engle, James Hearst, William Stafford
Ice Cube Press, North Liberty, IA, 2002

ContentsThe Good Earth Cover

James Hearst

  • The Movers
  • Snake in the Strawberries
  • Statement
  • The Old Admonitions
  • Birthplace
  • Forsythia
  • Don't Ask the Professor
  • Landscape—Iowa
  • This Is How They Do It
  • Threat of Violence
  • Truth 
  • Whatever Happened


Paul Engle

On a Too Clear Night
For the Iowa Dead
Cuban Voyage
Do You Hear Me?
The Are the Things
Light
Girl
Door


William Stafford

American Gothic
In the Old House
Willows
Be Calm. God Has Offered Us Pretty Names.
Through Nature to Eternity
Extension

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