Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Not to Be Overlooked | "We had a bull calf born premature," | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 7. |
| Off Limits | "He burned the grass" | Poetry Now 4 (Summer 1979) 11. |
| Outsider | "The field stretches from morning" | America (16 June 1979) 497. |
| Pause between Clock Ticks | "Like a caught breath" | Yankee Magazine (Nov. 1979) 297. |
| Retirement Blues | "Neither anger nor reproach will" | Poetry View 4 (Oct. 1979) 11. |
| Retirement Time Is the Time to Retire | "About twilight, swallows stitched" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 5. |
| Shove It, Brother, Shove It | "From bedroom to bathroom to" | North American Review 264 (Summer 1979) 26. |
| Small Thorns | "The odor from garbage my neighbor" | Wormwood Review 19 (1979) 33. |
| Something Not Tamed in Us | "Early this winter morning" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 4. |
| Statistics and Waterfalls | "The textbook lies on the" | Black and White 1 (1979) 18. |
| The Backward Flow | "A man bent with the burden" | University of Windsor Review 41.2 (Spring-Summer 1979) 54. |
| The Fact Is... | "A duck at a worm" | Poetry View (23 Sept. 1979) 14. |
| The Insatiable Demand | "He chopped his work" | The New Renaissance 111.3 (Jan. 1979) 45. |
| To Build a Fence | "We stretch a barbed wire from corner post" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 6. |
| Wheelchair Blues | "Two raised steps deny him" | North American Review 264 (Summer 1979) 26. |
| Women Shearing Men | "The wind whistles a bawdy tune," | Canadian Forum 58 (Mar. 1979) 33. |
| An In-Between Time | "He hasn't quite left her," | Poetry Now 5.4 Issue 28 (1980) 34. |
| Banish Morning Fear | "When he woke at dawn, it was his habit to think" | Modern Maturity 23.4 (Aug.-Sept. 1980) 20. |
| Castrating the Pigs | "It always seemed to be a rainy day" | Poetry Now 5.4 Issue 28 (1980) 34. |
| Cerebral Palsy | "Each morning the wild, random" | The Windless Orchard 36 (Spring-Summer 1980) 35. |
| Consider a Poem | "If I speak to explain myself" | Stone Country 7.1 (Feb. 1980) 16. |
| Espaliered on a Wailing Wall | "Farmland lacks immunity to the" | Wascana Review 15.1 (Spring 1980) 33. |
| Housebroken | "The year has turned," | Wascana Review 15.1 (Spring 1980) 32. |
| It Might Be True | "When we kids complained about" | The English Journal 69.9 (December 1980) 65. |
| Lack of Seed Power | "He drooped like a wilted flower" | Harper's Bazaar 261.1566 (Nov. 1980) 70. |