Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| The Cure | "The bush at the corner of the house" | Sandlapper (Oct. 1977) 16. |
| The Enemy | "The girl who now switches" | Westerly Review 2 (1977). |
| The Road | "It opened the way" | The Mainstreeter (Summer 1977) 40. |
| The Way It Is | "Prepare the ground, I told her," | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 64. |
| The Will to Possess | "Shoemaker had some Bokhara seed to sell," | Chowder Review (May 1977) 25. |
| There Must Be Somewhere to Go | "Wait for me, wait for me," | North Country (Spring 1977) 21. |
| Ute Cemetery | "Gravestones lean every which way," | Westerly Review, 2.1 (1977). |
| Vacation in Colorado | "The street's hullabaloo tramps" | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 66. |
| Whatever Happened | "When I was young I discovered" | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 68. |
| Who? Who? | "Do you ever stop to wonder—" | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 64. |
| Words that Smell Bad | "Neighbor, your "friendly" note arrived" | New River Review 2 (1977) 59. |
| A Disowner | "Not my world today" | Event: Journal of Contemporary Art 7 (1978) 62. |
| A Hawk Is Not a Rabbit | "He got the message!" | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 23. |
| A Way by Water | "In the basement this morning" | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 22. |
| At Least Once a Problem Solved | "Sometimes I feel like a shadow" | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 21. |
| Bereaved | "Granted, a meeting with her," | The American Scholar (Summer 1978) 356. |
| Birth Pains | "I do not remember birth pains" | The New Renaissance 3 (Summer 1978) 69. |
| Change in Appetites | "We had a hired man whose remarks" | South Dakota Review 16 (Summer 1978) 46. |
| It Could Be Worse, Maybe | "My god, such a night!" | Slow Loris Reader 1 (1978) 69. |
| Learning | "Sometimes you must break in" | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 20. |
| Modern Design | "How can you clean up the place" | Slow Loris Reader 1 (1978) 69. |
| No More Chores | "The old farmer nurses rheumatic joints" | Event: Journal of Contemporary Art 7 (1978) 61. |
| On Guard | "The sun protects my back" | Tinderbox (Nov. 1978) 18. |
| Our Country | "The lady in the harbor" | View Magazine (January 1978) 14. |
| Penalty for Anger | "The walls of heart shook" | Southwest Review 63 (Autumn 1978) 404. |