Nervous horses

by Vicki Hearne

First edition; from the University of Texas Press Poetry Series. This first poetry book (published in 1980) by Vicki Hearne, well-known for her remarkable essays on the relation of humans to domestic animals -- many of the published in the books Adam's Task and Animal Happiness. A professional trainer of both dogs and horses, Hearne wrote in a way that was always vibrant with direct knowledge of animals wild and tame.

70 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Victoria Elizabeth "Vicki" Hearne was an American author, philosopher, poet, animal trainer, and scholar of literary criticism and linguistics.