A Suggested Male Studies Curriculum (in three tankas)
If men closely read
Louis L’Amour’s characters
For morality
They might find humanity,
Not violence, heroic.
If men closely read
Larry McMurtry’s stories
For unspoken words
And the harms they manifest
Those wounds might scar, not fester.
If men closely read
James Wade’s western characters
For redemption lost
To thirst for retribution
Peace not pain might be the brand.
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Absolutely wonderful!
Very thought provoking.
Makes me want to read these authors!
I can see a whole series here — with different kinds of readers, by gender, age, geography, etc. Wonderful title.
great encapsulation of these authors and the themes that run through their work.
I read all of these, but my father taught me what it is not to be a man.