Son of a Lesser God
A Memoir of Fatherhood by a Mountain Man's Grown Son
© 2021 James LaFond
JAN/28/21
Ishmael's recollections are given in his own words. The biographer's comments appear in italics and in verse.
The author spent two weeks in Utah's high country, discussing one man, Bert Johnson, from the viewpoint of his grown son, thinking back on his childhood memories of Dad in those places where they were made. The result is this heartfelt memoir of fatherhood from a man who has come to know the burdens of fatherhood and the awakening of grandfatherhood, and who agreed to speak of his father from a child's wonder-lit view of life.
song of the secret gardener
the fighting edge
ranger?
predation
hate
uncle satan
wife—
within leviathan’s craw
under the god of things
masculine axis
logic of force
cracker-boy
the gods of boxing
fiction anthology one
book of nightmares
the lesser angels of our nature
time & cosmos
thriving in bad places
sorcerer!
blue eyed daughter of zeus
orphan nation
when you're food
all-power-fighting
the first boxers
the year the world took the z-pill
sons of aryas
z-pill forever
america the brutal
fanatic
dark, distant futures
the greatest boxer
on combat
into leviathan’s maw
the greatest lie ever sold
songs of aryas
triumph
winter of a fighting life
by the wine dark sea
menthol rampage
beasts of aryas
the combat space
night city
on the overton railroad
advent america
broken dance
taboo you
your trojan whorse
honor among men
barbarism versus civilization
son of a lesser god
solo boxing
fate
let the world fend for itself
the sunset saga complete
logic of steel