Dante's Foil & Other Sporting Tales

By Mark Axelrod

This collection of sporting tales mashes literary history and sports lore into a satirical inferno-skewering academic jargon and postmodern analysis with a razor-sharp, poison-tipped foil. Axelrod mischievously injects the ancients with steroids and offers statistics to prove how little we know about the origin of our favorite pastimes. Inside you'll discover the "Baudelaire-Bird Connection or, How the Boston Celtics Got To Be That Way"; the obscure "Russian Sport of Face Slapping"; "Metaleptic Parabasis or, the Fine Art of High Jumping"; "Jai-Alai Machu Picchu," and many other strange feats of Physical Lit-ness. Arm yourself with these tales and head to the nearest sports bar or poetry reading and laugh your ass off.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692425713
• ISBN13: 9780692425718
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: BLACK SCAT BOOKS
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"