Mormon Literature Database - Harris, John Sterling

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John Sterling Harris John S. Harris draws his poetry from a varied professional career that includes such prosaic professions as used car salesman and army first sergeant. He is better known, however, as a sensitive teacher of American literature and technical writing at Brigham Young University. His publications include a textbook, Writing for the Social Sciences, and two books of Western poetry Barbed Wire and Second Crop. Harris has also published a number of articles and poems in BYU Studies, The Carpenter, Dialogue, and in several anthologies. Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets View Works by this Person
Also Known As	John S. Harris
Birth Date	1929
Awards	2nd place, Chair Competition for "Flight"

Works by John Sterling Harris Sort by title	Year	Genre
.45	[1973]	Poetry
Browning Machine Gun	[1973]	Poetry
Carbine	[1973]	Poetry
Flame Thrower	[1973]	Poetry
Grenade	[1973]	Poetry
M1 Rifle	[1973]	Poetry
M16	[1973]	Poetry
SMG	[1973]	Poetry
Dale la Vuelta (Dally)	1996	Poetry
Alfalfa	1996	Poetry
Arma Virumque Cano	1996	Poetry
At the Ziggurat	1996	Poetry
Before the Launch	1996	Poetry
Before the Written Word	1996	Poetry
Bless Our Tacky Chapel	1996	Poetry
Cattle Guards	1996	Poetry
Cottonwoods	1996	Poetry
The Culvert’s Rise	1996	Poetry
Curiosity	1996	Poetry
Dedication Hymn	1996	Poetry
Downhill	1996	Poetry
Flight	1996	Poetry
Flood	1996	Poetry
Forgery	1996	Poetry
Hermitage	1996	Poetry
Humboldt	1996	Poetry
Insecta	1996	Poetry
Introduction [to Second Crop]	1996	Criticism
Muska and the Porcupines	1996	Poetry
My Earliest Memory	1996	Poetry
Of Barns	1996	Poetry
Pastoral	1996	Poetry
Pioneer Graveyard	1996	Poetry
The School of the Horse	1996	Poetry
Second Crop: Poems	1996	Poetry Collection
Single-Action Colt	1996	Poetry
Smithy	1996	Poetry
Son Loss	1996	Poetry
Three Triolets	1996	Poetry
To a Celibate Friend Marrying Late	1996	Poetry
Two Mnemonic Odes on the Phonetic Alphabet	1996	Poetry
Warren Piece	1996	Poetry
Wire Cut Liniment	1996	Poetry
Reno-Bentine Site	1995	Poetry
Risk and Terror	1994	Personal Essay
The Window	1993	Poetry
Disclaimer	1992	Poetry
Desert	1991	Poetry
I Find Green	1991	Poetry
Soldiers of the Legion	1991	Poetry
An Age of Wonders	1990	Poetry
Rattler	1990	Poetry
The World of Men	1990	Poetry
Apprentice	1989	Poetry
E. H. 1817	1989	Poetry
Hotblood	1989	Poetry
Black Whole	1988	Poetry
Lombardy Poplars	1988	Poetry
Excavation	1987	Poetry
Reversion	1985	Poetry
Alkali	1984	Poetry
Grasshoppers	1984	Poetry
Of Writing and Trivia and Neat Things	1984	Personal Essay
Search for Flight	1984	Poetry
Tracks	1984	Poetry
Benjamin	1980	Poetry
When I See Thy Strength, O Lord	1980	Poetry
The Magi	1977	Poetry
Incident in the Ice Cream Parlor	1976	Poetry
Rabbit Pen	1975	Poetry
Adaptation	1974	Poetry
The Assassination of Emma Gray	1974	Poetry
Barbed Wire: Poetry and Photographs of the West	1974	Poetry Collection
Daddy Long Legs	1974	Poetry
First Spring Ride	1974	Poetry
Hackamore	1974	Poetry
Hawk	1974	Poetry
Hay Derrick	1974	Poetry
Horned Toad	1974	Poetry
Ice Crystals	1974	Poetry
Juniper Trees	1974	Poetry
Mercur, Utah	1974	Poetry
Notes on Infantry Weapons	1974	Poetry
Polly Sleeps	1974	Poetry
Populus Tremulus	1974	Poetry
Progress	1974	Poetry
Tack Room	1974	Poetry
Vulnerability	1974	Poetry
Watering Turn	1974	Poetry
The Whittler	1974	Poetry
Intimate Portraits	1973	Criticism
Fallow	1972	Poetry
The Gate	1971	Poetry
Canticle One	1970	Poetry
Canticle Two	1970	Poetry
Teleology	1970	Poetry
Rock Pile	1969	Poetry
Tag, I.D.	1965	Poetry