Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea

by Leopold McGinnis

Overview

Crafting wings out of wax and poems from the underground, Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea is a dreamlike voyage through poetic narrative format, blurring the line between poetry and fiction. Exploring the frenetic lives of Mexican cowboys, robots, sultans, Greek gods, and convenience store clerks, Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea shatters preconceived notions of poetry and instead offers a more accessible strain of literary free flow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926836331
Publisher:	Athabasca University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	Mingling Voices
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	185
File size:	686 KB

About the Author

Leopold McGinnis doesn't know much about art, but he knows what he likes. Unfortunately, it's usually not the same thing everyone else likes, so he's just had to make his own. This includes three novels, The Red Fez, Game Quest, and Bad Attitude, and a collection of poetry, Poetaster.

In his spare time Leopold roams across the postapocalyptic literary landscape in search of beating hearts as the founding editor of Red Fez Publications, the online aftermath of a bout of unemployment, rejection-induced literary cynicism, and an inexplicable optimism for artistic change. Born and raised in Calgary, he has lived just about everywhere, including Toronto, where he currently resides.

Leopold McGinnis doesn't know much about art, but he knows what he likes. Unfortunately, it's usually not the same thing everyone else likes, so he's just had to make his own. This includes three novels, The Red Fez, Game Quest, and Bad Attitude, and a collection of poetry, Poetaster.

Table of Contents

xi Why Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea? 3 The city 7 Robert’s Prison 9 A Good Day 14 The Big Shot 23 Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea 25 On the Trail of Ibn Battuta The Three Amigos 28 El Mexicano 30 The Two Xs 32 The Muscle 39 In the vault of the keeper of dreams 41 The Secret 59 Ask the ’stache 61 The Method 62 In the Dojo 63 Who’s going to fulfill my unreasonable expectations? The Sultan Poems 66 The Sultan’s Heart 68 In the Petticoat’s Palace 72 The Sultan’s Epiphany 74 In Petticoat’s Kingdom 77 By Day 80 Beneath 84 In Search of Another Ending 87 Her Return 89 Where the Garden Used to Be 91 A Gift for Rats and Spiders 94 The Sandstorm 95 What the rat reads in the corner of the dungeon 96 They Tremble 100 By Night 103 The Palace’s Story 107 He Sees Water in the Desert 113 She Leaves a Poem in His Parapet 115 Look Upon This with Full Eyes, Prince 121 The Sultan Wakes 128 Best Before 129 Just the Handshake 131 The Drop 136 The Big Thaw 143 The Failed Experiment 144 All Your Questions 147 The Last Generation 148 The Great Indian 150 Crash landing 151 Restart? 152 A brief history of Gandhi 155 We Love Robot 159 Some Thoughts on Some Poems 165 Special Thanks 167 About the Author