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Selected Poems by James Hearst 

The James & Meryl Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1994

Contents 

Statement

Landscape-Iowa

The Reason for Stars

The Questioner

Truth 

Limited View 

Winter Shower

Success

The Movers 

Trails of Ownership 

Progress

After the People Go

Comfort from an Old Tune 

Emerson's Page

On Relief

Clover Swaths 

His Daily Pack 

Need of Solid Ground

Self-Portrait 

University

What Shall We Do?

Farmer to His Son

For a Neighbor Woman

Susanna and the Elders 

Snake in the Strawberries 

Change towards Certainty

Forsythia

Love in Autumn

Unearned Gift

Mother

Scatter the Petals 

I Set My Chair

Inquiry

The Sun at Noon

The Grail

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