Of Men and Minotaurs: John Steinbeck, Masculinity, and Finding Meaning in Monsters

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The beauty of reading and reviewing poetry is that my ears have become more open to lines and lyrics from the ether. And, while I was on my daily hike over the ocean bluffs, I heard the line “Of Men and Minotaurs.” At first, I thought this line was coming up because I had just started watching Disney’s most recent version of Percy Jackson and the…