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Rural Education is a vivid and unflinching meditation on coming of age in a small, agricultural town. Through language that is steady, often funny, and sometimes brutal, these poems explore the lingering imprint one's upbringing leaves on identity after its beauty and harsh realities fade. Gritty yet unexpectedly gentle, Rural Education stakes its claim somewhere between elegy and dispatch, a place where tenderness hides in long silences and the pass of a tool. What emerges is a collection haunted by memory and softened by humor, a place where a boy learns the world by way of its textures and rough edges, and the slow drift of seasons and time

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Evan P. Schneider's writing has appeared in The Normal School, Rattle, CrayfishMag, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. Author of the novel A Simple Machine, Like the Lever and founding editor of Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, Schneider has received support for his work from the Oregon Arts Commission and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Born and raised in the Southwest, Schneider now lives in Oregon. Rural Education is his first chapbook. Visit him online at evanpschneider.com.

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