Snake in the Strawberries
Snake in the Strawberries by James Hearst
Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, 1979
Contents
Unpublished
- Land of Beginnings
- Instead of Honey
- Something Not Tamed in Us
- Retirement Time Is the Time to Retire
- To Build a Fence
- Grandfather and the Evangelist
- Not to Be Overlooked
- Arrogance of Things
- Barns in November
- But the Earth Abides
- A Secret to Live By
- Routine
- Need for Magic
- No Symbols
1937
- Fall Plowing
- The Reason for Stars
- Mad Dog
- Cows Bawl on Sunday
- Winter Field
- Clover Swaths
- In April
- Protest
1943
- Snake in the Strawberries
- The Vine
- Homesickness
- After the Son Died
- The Fence Row
- The Neighborhood
- Time Like a Hand
- Stranger
- Boundary Lines
1951
1962
- Love
- The Unprotected
- Truth
- Many Hens Do Not Make Light Work
- The Shadow
- Moment toward Spring
- The Old Admonitions
- Birthplace
- Limited View
- Change toward Certainty
- The Visit
- Late Meadowlark
- Scatter the Petals
- Men Give More Than Promises
- Love in Autumn
- Forsythia
- Elegy
- Apple Harvest
- Three Sides to a Farm
- Quarrel's Echo
- Tasters
- Plea for Single Focus
- Before Frost
- Line between Seasons
- Progress
- Wilderness Ways
- Undertow
- The Hunter
- Close the Accounts
- The New Calf
- Forewarned
- Karma
1968
1969
1970
1971
- Sharers
- A Misery Bleeds
- Out of Season
- Thought of Bluebells
- Cock Pheasant
- Alien
- Cry Shame
- Destruction
- The Farmer's Bride
- Sounds around a Man
1973
1974
1975
1976
- Forked Road
- Veteran's Day
- Self-Portrait
- Frustrations
- Harvest Claim
- Landscape - Iowa
- Dirge for an Old Wound
- Virgin Prairie
- At Least on the Surface
- What Wind
- University
- Valley and Mountain
- Stream and Tree
- The Blame
- Spring Fever
- Don't Ask the Professor
- Pressed Flowers
- Potencies
- Father
- Wren Logic
- Day after Day
- Revival
- Winter Mood
1977
- Growing Up
- Flight and Return
- Calendar's Mischief
- Lock the Door
- The Way It Is
- Who? Who?
- Same Thing but Different
- Eighty Birthdays
- Hostility to Order
- Not Born Again
- Words that Smell Bad
- Mother
- The Will to Possess
- Facts
- I Set My Chair
- Born Each Morning
- Vacation in Colorado
- Ute Cemetery
- It Never Went Away
- The Enemy
- Too Many Defeats Dull the Spirit
- Cleaning the Barn
- Judgment by Spring Rain
- Each to Its Own Purpose
- Shaped by Names
- Alive and Well
- End of the Game
1978