Book description
In MASCULINITY, Robert Crawford elegantly explores many aspects of that
troubling concept, from imperial militarism to his own experiences as
father, husband, and son. By turn affectionate and amusing, painful and
self-excoriating, Crawford wryly examines, sometimes in intimate detail,
what it is to be male - from awkward, unsporty and even more awkward
adolescent, to husband, father of a child and, apparently, New Man.
Clever, accessible, very funny and chillingly accurate, MASCULINITY is a
sparklingly original collection. Star Trek Epigrams Mr Sulu, set the
controls To Economy Wash. We're about to venture Where no man has gone
before. Kirk to enterprise: 'I'm going back to my cabin With a box of
Kleenex. I want to experience the lonliness of Command. ' Robert
Crawford was born in 1959 and studied at Glasgow and Oxford. He now
teaches at the University of St Andrews. His first collection,
A Scottish Assembly,
was shortlisted for the 1990 McVitie's Book of the Year; his second, Talkies,
was selected as one of the twenty books on the New Generation Poets
promotion of 1994.
