{"product_id":"life-is-like-canadian-football-and-other-authentic-folk-songs","title":"Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA grossly inaccurate \"memoir\" about Canadian folk legends.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry\n Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he \nunearthed songs by CFL players in Library and Archives Canada, thereby \nthrusting himself into the scene—and the media spotlight. Those spartan \npoems are finally included in this anthology, in addition to the fruits \nof his subsequent expeditions, but there is much more besides, including\n honest accounts of the folklorist’s myriad trials and tribulations. \nThis experimental and genre-defying book mixes the adventurous energies \nof Alan Lomax and Stompin’ Tom, the intertextual conceptualism of \nVladimir Nabokov and Mark Z. Danielewski, and the searing intensity of \nElizabeth Smart and Chris Kraus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Comically entertaining, presented with 'performative verve', as novelist Jacob Wren puts it.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is cracking me up—and I don't even like football—but it is\n just so well written.\"\u003cb\u003e—Robert Dayton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Invisible Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54230699409752,"sku":"9781988784700","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781988784700_cf6e22cc-9377-4c68-876f-ee984918bbd3.jpg?v=1765294239","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/life-is-like-canadian-football-and-other-authentic-folk-songs","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}