Time Like a Furrow

Essays On The Rural Iowa Landscape

Time Like A Furrow is a collection of essays written by James Hearst. While Hearst is famous for his poetry on farming, these essays focused more on the people he grew up with on the farm and rural life in the era before mechanized farming. Ten seperate poems are scattered throughout the book giving the essays more emphasis. The essays are divided into four diverse sections: People, Rural Childhood, Chores and Horses and Men.