English, Department of
How to Live in the Heartland
Document Type Article
Copyright © 1992 by Twyla Hansen. Published 1992 Second Printing 1992 Third Printing 1997
Abstract
Foreword by William Kloefkorn -7 How to Live in the Heartland -lI Airing Out -12 Country Girl-13 January Thaw -14 Making Lard -15 Headlines: Hometown Weekly -16 Nuance -17 My Brother Randall Teaches Me to Ride a Bicycle -18 Seamstress -19 Eddie -20 Nine-Mile Prairie, Mid-May -22 The Pine Grove -23 Kissing Cousins -24 Scars -25 Trumpetcreeper Vine -26 1964 -27 Friday Night at the Plaza -28 After the Farm Sale -30 Highway -31 Night Shift at the Old Hospital, 1968 -32 Fantasy -34 Eyewash -35 Navigating the North Platte from Lingle to Torrington -36 When the Prairie Speaks -37 The Call-38 No Thunder -39 Instinct -40 Standing on Nine-Mile Prairie Watching the Lunar Eclipse -41 Gravy -42 Driving East -43 Wednesday Night Love Poem -44 View from 1-80 -45 Garbage -46 Why Horticulturists Write Love Poems -48 Spring: the Second Night -49 Rainstorm -50 Snowstorm, Late October -51 Dream of Fields -52 Walking to Work -54 The Other Woman -55 Love Poem from the Prairie -56 Spring -57 Full Moon, Early September -58 Planting Trees -60 Chances Are -61 About the Author -63