Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Relief from Pressure | "The forecast said rain," | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 19. |
| Sauce for the Gander | "The last person to bed starts the" | Cedar Arts Forum (May 1978) 2. |
| The Inevitable Words like Signposts | "The morning's paper carried a story" | Ohio Review 19 (Spring-Summer 1978) 14. |
| The Professor Enrolls | "I decided to major in leisure" | National Retired Teachers Association Journal (January 1978) 13. |
| They Never Came | "Our town prepared for invasion" | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 24. |
| Virtue of Logic | "He believed in the generation" | The New Renaissance 3 (Summer 1978) 70. |
| A Misery Bleeds | "A misery bleeds inside of me" | Snake in the Strawberries. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1979. 52. |
| A Secret to Live By | "In the attic of my mind" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 10. |
| A Shabby Day | "Out of doors, office-bound," | Black and White 1 (1979) 19. |
| An Account of Failures | "I woke this morning and felt" | West Branch 4 (1979) 65. |
| Apparition in the Afternoon | "The telephone lies in its incubator." | |
| Arrogance of Things | "The growth of the cornfield today" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 8. |
| But the Earth Abides | "The windmill squeaks, flaps broken vanes," | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 9. |
| Death of a Marriage | "They reached home," | Black and White 1 (1979) 18. |
| Do People Care for People? | "Appetites in the barnyard bawled" | Wormwood Review 19 (1979) 32. |
| Dragon Lesson | "This country needs live dragons," | Snake in the Strawberries. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1979. 100. |
| Grandfather and the Evangelist | "A tent with a platform and with folding chairs," | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 6. |
| Hang On to the Grab Bar | "Caught in the revolving door" | Kansas Quarterly 11 (Summer 1979) 71. |
| Hard Way to Learn | "A trickle of water from" | Poetry 134.1 (April 1979) 17. |
| Here and There | "It's true the days are longer," | Snake in the Strawberries. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1979. 47. |
| Land of Beginnings | "The door you once closed lets you slip through" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 3. |
| Need For Magic | "After a lonely night and an empty day" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 11. |
| No Nightingales, No Nymphs | "The imperatives of spring" | Poetry 134 (April 1979) 18. |
| No Symbols | "The barn's warm breath" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 12. |
| No Word for the Wise | "We can tell the year's close" | Southwest Review 64 (Autumn 1979) 392. |