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"Alex Lemon is a brave, headlong writer, and he captures the life of the body with vivid and memorable intensity."—Mark Doty
Brain surgery. Assault weapons in the bed of a pickup truck. Sophia Loren at the Oscars. Rilke, Rodin, and the craters of the moon. Recovery and disintegration. Monkeys stealing an egg outside a temple in Kathmandu. Brushing teeth bloody on long car rides under blue skies. Pain, ours and what we bring to others. Wildfires in southern California. Rats in Texas. Childhood abuse. Dreams of tigers and blackout nights. The sweetness of mangoes. A son born into a shadowy hospital room. Love. Joy.
In Feverland, Alex Lemon has created a fragmented exploration of what it means to be a man in the tumult of twenty-first-century America—and a harrowing, associative memoir about how we live with the beauties and horrors of our pasts. How to move forward, Lemon asks, when trapped between the demons of one's history and the angels of one's better nature? How to live in kindness—to become a caring partner and parent—when one can muster very little such tenderness for oneself? How to be here, now? How to be here, good?
Immersed in darkness but shot through with light, Feverland is a thrillingly experimental memoir from one of our most heartfelt and inventive writers.
Contents
Contents
EKG
I Was Already Ready When I Was Dead
Migrants in a Feverland
Kissing God
King of the Rats
Migrants in a Feverland
My Misogyny
Heartdusting
I Can Hold My Breath Forever
Things That Are: On Pleasure
Migrants in a Feverland
Like So Many Nightmares
Migrants in a Feverland
Rabbit Hole Music
Way Up High Way Down Low
Migrants in a Feverland
Becoming Animal: A History
How Long before You Go Dry
All Night the Cockroaches
Migrants in a Feverland
Fuck the Alamo, or Never Forget: A Mixtape
Notes
Acknowledgments
