<p>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.</p><p>One is strong one is weak. One leads one follows. One is American one is less-than.</p><p><i>Revision of a Man</i> 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.</p>