Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea

Leopold McGinnis

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.

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.

Table of Contents

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

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