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
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