Revision of a man - Matt Smythe

Probably more today than any other time in American history, the definition of what it means or what it takes to be a man is a moving target.

The tension between masculinity and vulnerability is fiercely obvious in the issue-driven, sound-bite culture we live in.

One is strong, one is weak.

One leads, one follows.

One is American, one is less-than.

Revision of a Man is a reconciliation with the shifting path of fatherhood, military service, a love of the outdoors, addiction, sobriety, depression, recovery, anger, and peace.

The poetry and the prose are a stake in the ground that insists, a man is not one or the other.

He is all of them.