Real Country

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Real Country</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> chronicles a world that is less and less known or remembered in the fast-changing media-saturated culture of today. It is the world of the farm kid: a world of large spaces and small schools of long bus rides and short statements of harsh conditions and hard-earned satisfactions. These poems mean to preserve a West Texas version of that experience from a few decades ago played out against a wide landscape with its own contentious history and its own stark beauty.</span></p>