Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Day of the Cornfield | "The day of the cornfield all right," | The Small Farm (Oct. 1976-March 1977) 11. |
| Dirty Old Man's Poem | "A dirty old man’s poem" | Periodical of Art in Nebraska (Summer 1976) 9. |
| Evergreen Transformations | "‘‘Who knocks on my door?’’ asks History" | The Alumnus Univ. of Northern Iowa (Dec. 1976) 12. |
| Facts | "I do not read portents," | Chowder Review (Spring 1976) 13. |
| Father | "Nailheads broke off with the sound" | Wascana Review 2 (Spring 1976) 31. |
| Forked Road | "It's hard to decide sometimes" | Wascana Review 11 (Spring 1976) 32. |
| Homecoming | "So let's knock off for the day, I said," | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 39. |
| Instead of Honey | "Let's get to work, time may be short with us," | Poetry Now 3 (1976) 22. |
| Keep the Storm Outside | "Rain patters on my roof" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 33. |
| Landscape—Iowa | "No one who lives here" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 45. |
| Mother | "The photograph fades, turns yellow," | South Dakota Review 14 (Autumn 1976) 76. |
| Muskrats in the Cornfield | "Persuasion of rain and sun" | Poetry Now 3 (June 1976) 22. |
| Neighborhood in the Suburbs | "Take our garbage cans, a man may be known" | Miscellany 15 (1976) 126. |
| No News is Good News | "Having read the same names in the paper" | Poetry Now (1976) 69. |
| Praise | "When I forced the fat land with seed" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 55. |
| Short Cut | "A short cut, so we said, a different road, " | Shaken by Leaf-fall |
| Still Heard but Faintly | "What chime struck from the iron air" | Periodical of Art in Nebraska (Fall 1976) 11. |
| Storm Bound | "Whipped by the blizzard I fled" | Shaken by Leaf-fall |
| Take This Guy | "Now take this guy next door," | The New Renaissance 8 (March 1976) 56. |
| That Kind of a Day | "A kitten plays with a mouse," | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 24. |
| The Flower | "The afternoon bent over" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 15. |
| The Maid who Served an Ogre | "She washed the dishes, cleaned the sink," | Periodical of Art in Nebraska (Fall 1976) 11. |
| The Snapshot | "There we four sit, quick perched as sparrows on a wire," | Poetry Now 3 (1976) 71. |
| The Wall | "A door builds a strange wall" | Kansas Quarterly 8.3/4 (Summer-Autumn 1976) 102. |
| Two Men | "The stiff man scrubs his hands," | Poetry Now (Jan. 1976) 24. |