Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea
144 pages, 5 x 8
12 b&w illustrations
Paperback
Release Date:01 Feb 2011
ISBN:9781897425947
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Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea

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Athabasca University Press
Crafting wings out of wax and poems from the underground, Zeus andthe Giant Iced Tea is a dreamlike voyage through poetic narrativeformat, blurring the line between poetry and fiction. Exploring thefrenetic lives of Mexican cowboys, robots, sultans, Greek gods, andconvenience store clerks, Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea shatterspreconceived notions of poetry and instead offers a more accessiblestrain of literary free flow.

Leopold McGinnis is the author of three novels,The Red Fez, Game Quest, and Bad Attitude,and a collection of poetry, Poetaster.

Why Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea?

The city

Robert’s Prison

A Good Day

The Big Shot

Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea

On the Trail of Ibn Battuta

 

The Three Amigos

El Mexicano

The Two Xs

The Muscle

 

In the vault of the keeper of dreams

The Secret

Ask the ’stache

The Method

In the Dojo

Who’s going to fulfill my unreasonable expectations?

 

The Sultan Poems

The Sultan’s Heart

In the Petticoat’s Palace

The Sultan’s Epiphany

In Petticoat’s Kingdom

By Day

Beneath

In Search of Another Ending

Her Return

 

Where the Garden Used to Be

A Gift for Rats and Spiders

The Sandstorm

What the rat reads in the corner of the dungeon

They Tremble

By Night

The Palace’s Story

He Sees Water in the Desert

She Leaves a Poem in His Parapet

Look Upon This with Full Eyes, Prince

The Sultan Wakes

 

Best Before

Just the Handshake

The Drop

The Big Thaw

The Failed Experiment

All Your Questions

The Last Generation

The Great Indian

Crash landing

Restart?

A brief history of Gandhi

We Love Robot

 

Some Thoughts on Some Poems

Special Thanks

About the Author

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