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.

Leopold McGinnis wishes he was good at writing bios. Because then he’d tell you how he independently wrote, illustrated, published and promoted three novels—The Red Fez, Game Quest and Bad Attitude—in literary obscurity. Then he’d allude to his several years of literary activism in the underground as the founding editor of Red Fez Publications and founding member of The Guild of Outsider Writers, including his brief but crazy stint with the always outrageous Underground Literary Alliance. Perhaps he’d write his bio in rhyming couplet, or paint a picture big enough to swallow the black hole of his nihilism. Yes, with one simple bio he would catch in a sack all the fluttering questions that beat their black wings against the pink, red and orange of his daily sunsets. Yes, yes, yes. He would.

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