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. |