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.

the gods of boxing

triumph

let the world fend for itself

on the overton railroad

sorcerer!

within leviathan’s craw

song of the secret gardener

the first boxers

by the wine dark sea

son of a lesser god

the combat space

under the god of things

wife—

dark, distant futures

songs of aryas

broken dance

into leviathan’s maw

z-pill forever

cracker-boy

solo boxing

logic of force

the year the world took the z-pill

taboo you

winter of a fighting life

predation

ranger?

fiction anthology one

masculine axis

all-power-fighting

time & cosmos

hate

the greatest lie ever sold

fate

orphan nation

barbarism versus civilization

book of nightmares

night city

america the brutal

honor among men

blue eyed daughter of zeus

the fighting edge

thriving in bad places

menthol rampage

advent america

the greatest boxer

when you're food

your trojan whorse

the sunset saga complete

on combat

fanatic

the lesser angels of our nature

logic of steel