Publisher's Synopsis
(from the back cover) Pacific Northwest poet Christian Skoorsmith navigates the terrain and terroir of being male-socialized and male-identifying, while seeking authenticity and meaning in a world which in recent decades has seen little of worth in manhood or masculinity. Eschewing easy binaries and resisting the tropes of returning to some imagined, unadulterated past where men were men, Skoorsmith touches the wound and wonder, the hope and contradictions, the struggles, small victories, and honest failings of one man. In this new collection of poems, Skoorsmith lays himself most bare, exploring the question he implicitly learned it was wrong even to ask: what does it mean to be a man?
