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Rural Education by Evan P. Schneider

$17.99

Paper

Debut

979-8-89990-291-8

2025

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.

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.

PRAISE:

 

“Brutally, darkly, comically real, without judgment or romanticism.”
–Charles Malone, author of Working Hypothesis and Questions About Circulation

 

“A tender excavation of rural masculinity and the anxieties of being human.”

–Elyse Fenton, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Clamor and Sweet Insurgent

 

“These poems evoke not just a place, but a range of feelings in a way that feels wholly original.”

–Susan Leslie Moore, Juniper Prize-winning author of That Place Where You Opened Your Hands

 

“Captures the beauty, loneliness, and wonder of a free-range childhood in a deceptively slender collection.”

–Michael Bazzett, Stern Prize-winning author of Cloudwatcher, The Popol Vuh, and The Temple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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