Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels—down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Chickens Saved My Life
- 2. The Time It Takes (By Way of an Introduction)
- 3. Secret
- 4. A Possum Fate (Averted)
- 5. Events Unfold in the Snow
- 6. Chicken Feet
- 7. Why Chickens, or Homage to Gloria
- 8. Boomerang
- 9. A Way of Making Another Egg
- 10. Shivers and Shakes
- 11. The Chicken or the Egg
- 12. Strawberry/Fetish
- 13. Life after Life
- 14. The Poetry of Pigs
- 15. Some Musings on Metaphor
- 16. Tricking the Body
- 17. Chicken Joke
- 18. Nice Paint Job
- 19. Frenzied Calm
- 20. Tokhm-e Morgh
- 21. Disability
- 22. Why Me, Lord?
- 23. Five Down, Two to Go
- 24. The Warrior Song of King Gesar
- 25. Euphoria
- 26. A Fern Romance
- 27. Weeding
- 28. Untimely
- 29. Blue/Shimmer
- 30. Missed Connection
- 31. Blown through the Air
- 32. Don’t Think about It (For the Moment)
- 33. Spheres of Glass
- 34. Purple Haze
- 35. Cantankerous Rooster
- 36. Dead and Alive: A Tenuous Continuum
- 37. Breakfast Anecdotes
- 38. Landscape
- 39. Tootin Pootin
- 40. Dragon Inn
- 41. All along the Highway
- 42. A Lion’s Roar
- 43. The Ecology of Cancer, and What Do Ants Have to Do with It?
- 44. What Does It Matter?
- 45. So Unctuous and So Tender
- 46. Dorland
- 47. Touched by a Whale
- 48. Travel
- 49. The Answer Is Not Coming
- 50. Nightclub Bouncers
- 51. All Natural
- 52. Anza Borrego
- 53. Lighten Up
- 54. Glad to Be Here (Plaintive Knowledge)
- 55. Stinging Nettles
- 56. A Talent for Cancer
- 57. Phobia: The Chickens Come Home to Roost
- 58. Walking Meditation
- 59. A Ticket for Tuppence
- 60. Reaching Yirrkala
- 61. Chookless
- 62. Chicken Shit
- 63. Mimetic Pain
- 64. You Are Mostly Not You
- 65. RIP Elvis, the King of the Cats
- 66. Afterlife
- 67. Art Alive
- 68. Bodies in Pieces
- 69. A Prospect of Consolation
- 70. Fig Future
- 71. Between Fresh and Rotten
- 72. Blood Poetry
- 73. Shimmer and Glimmer
- 74. I Need an Advocate
- 75. Nameless
- 76. Fermentation Dreams
- 77. The Structure That a Life Has
- 78. Like a Cat in a Hat, Sleek and Brave: RIP Ryoko
- 79. The Malvolio Gene
- 80. What Do You Expect?
- 81. Chimera
- 82. The Last Chicken Standing
- 83. Arrivederci
- Notes
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