In his new collection, Rattlesnake Summer, poet and journalist Christopher Vondracek takes his readers on a unique tour of South Dakota via sixty-six original poems – one for each county in the state.

Inspired by his time as a South Dakota journalist and completed while living a thousand miles away in the nation’s capital, Vondracek's latest collection is an unconventional and loving stroll through the varied, and sometimes strange, seasons of his adopted home state.