<p>This collection of James Hearst's poem spans nearly 50 years. The 156 pieces deal with the relationship of a farmer to his land and neighbors, the personal problems of a man and his world, and the great virtue of love. They offer insights into a range of human experiences - joy, hope, suffering, sorrow, death, and many other emotions - that intertwine with images of hills, fields, farmhouses and barns.</p>

Snake in the Strawberries: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Hearst, James

Poetry

Iowa State Pr

Snake in Strawberries

Iowa State University Press

My Shadow Below Me

Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called "a poetry of place." A lifelong Iowa farmer, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following. Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conßicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental-a people and an art rooted in place.

The Complete Poetry of James Hearst

University Of Iowa Press

Sm Quarto, 1981, PP.289, Essays On The Rural Iowa Landscape

Time like a furrow: Essays

Iowa State Historical Dept., Division of the States Historical Society

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