Shaken By Leaf-fall by James Hearst

Kylix Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1976

Contents

ONE: Virgin Prairie

• A Winter Review
• Dirge for an Old Wound
• Valley and Mountain
• What Wind
• The Flower
• Close Call
• Frustrations 
• Day After Day
• The Oldest Season
• Storm Bound
• Winter Mood
• The Farmstead
• Hog Economy
• That Kind of a Day
• Change toward Certainty
• University
• Spring Fever

• Virgin Prairie

  TWO: Emerson's Page

• Textual Matters
• Potencies
• Keep the Storm Outside
• Short Cut
• Pressed Flowers
• Day's Facts
• Sounds around a Man
• Homecoming
• Spring Rain
• Queer People
• Hard Words
• Cloud over the Sun
• Once Glimpsed
• Landscape - Iowa
• The Face of Things
• Weeds of Anger
• The Rescue
• Spring Rites

• Emerson's Page

  THREE: Snake in the Strawberries

• Self-Portrait
• A Green Voice
• Praise
• Revival
• Fear of Renewal 
• Wren Logic
• Don't Ask the Professor
• Harvest Claim
• Destruction 
• The Blame 
• Stunted Root
• Let's Go Inside
• At Least on the Surface
• The Bird
• Abrasive Time
• Wonder of Hummingbirds
• Stream and Tree
• Comfort in an Old Tune
• Snake in the Strawberries