Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Let's Not Fool Ourselves | "While you wait, time digs at you" | Voyages to the Inland Sea, II: Essays and Poems by Felix Pollak, James Hearst, John Woods. 1972. 43. |
| Love Song | "Deep in the woods I wake" | Voyages to the Inland Sea, II: Essays and Poems by Felix Pollak, James Hearst, John Woods. 1972. 49. |
| Routine | "The boy drowning under waves" | Aspen Times (3 Aug. 1972) |
| Textual Matters | ""Cross your legs," saith the preacher," | Midwest Quarterly 14 (Autumn 1972) 79. |
| The Gift for Love | "Underbrush, grasses, weeds," | Eidolons Valhalla I (Sept. 1972). |
| Try, Try Again | "When I was young the girls were quick" | Monthly Magazine for the Arts of Storytelling (Aug-Sept 1972) 18. |
| Until The Storm Passes | "The wheel-rounded wind races" | Voyages to the Inland Sea, II 50. |
| A Testament | "The ant down there, dragging his leg," | America (17 Feb. 1973) 143. |
| Judgement by Spring Rain | "Some snarl faced poet" | Yankee Magazine (April 1973) 192. |
| Revelation | "Who ordained the flicker on my" | Christian Science Monitor (10 July 1973) 2. |
| You Can't Plow Stone | "The plow point starts the furrow," | Sunday Clothes 12 (Summer 1973) 44. |
| Auction | "The house offers its private" | Fiction: The Magazine for Storytelling 5 (Spring 1974) 34. |
| Detention | "The wilted flowers" | View Magazine (Sept 1974) 11. |
| It Happened | "A rumpled bed," | Hawk and Whippoorwill 2 (Autumn 1974) 25. |
| Last Day at the Swimming Hole | "Two boys pick their way" | English Journal 63 (May 1974) 54. |
| Listen | "Clock in the bell tower" | Periphery (Spring 1974). |
| Sight by Blindfold | "I walked up the knoll" | View Magazine (27 Jan. 1974). |
| The Problem | "The problem is to see the problem" | Prairie Schooner 48.3 (Fall 1974) 258. |
| Virgin Prairie | "This old squaw of a prairie" | South Dakota Review 12 (Spring 1974) 82. |
| Yes, It Would | "Wouldn't it be a gas some morning" | Quartet 6 (Summer 1974) 27. |
| A Jog to Memory | "The odor of wild honey" | Sunday Clothes (Spring 1975) 24. |
| A Prejudiced Witness | "This morning my wife and I" | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
| A Return to Facts | "You check out the office" | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
| An Occasion | "In the late afternoon," | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
| Chill Comfort | "The sun rose, burned off the mist," | Virginia Quarterly Review 52 (Winter 1975) 72. |