Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs - Henry Adam Svec

A grossly inaccurate "memoir" about Canadian folk legends.Henry

Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he

unearthed songs by CFL players in Library and Archives Canada, thereby

thrusting himself into the scene—and the media spotlight. Those spartan

poems are finally included in this anthology, in addition to the fruits

of his subsequent expeditions, but there is much more besides, including

honest accounts of the folklorist’s myriad trials and tribulations.

This experimental and genre-defying book mixes the adventurous energies

of Alan Lomax and Stompin’ Tom, the intertextual conceptualism of

Vladimir Nabokov and Mark Z. Danielewski, and the searing intensity of

Elizabeth Smart and Chris Kraus."Comically entertaining, presented with ''performative verve'', as novelist Jacob Wren puts it."—Atlantic Books Today

"This book is cracking me up—and I don''t even like football—but it is

just so well written."—Robert Dayton, author of The Canadian Romantic