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To Banquet With The Ethiopians
by Philip Brady

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• Format: paperback, 168 pages
• Release date: June 1, 2015
• Language: english
• Author: Philip Brady
• ISBN: 9781937968168 (1937968162)
• Publisher: Broadstone Press

About The Book

Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady’s To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an audacious masterpiece of wit and erudition that blends Homer’s discovery of the alphabet with a man’s return from near death and a boy’s struggle to see the adult

world through the prism of an ancient epic.

With a wink and a nod to Joyce (who even puts in an appearance), as a “scrivener” recovers from a heart attack he recalls his first boyhood encounter with the Iliad at a long-ago summer camp. Even with his imperfect understanding of the saga he realized that the Trojan War, with all its violence and intrigue, was being waged on a smaller scale right there, by counselors and campers at the New York Police

Athletic League. This intersection of worlds opens the door for Homer to enter, and a rollicking tale ensues.

As the story is transposed from history and memory into myth, it ripples from Ithaca to Queens, passing through a murder investigation, a hacked computer containing an ur-version of the Iliad, Homer’s first poetry workshop and his last encounter with

the Muse, a plot to relocate Troy, and a committee charged with writing the sequel. While it is fantastical and whimsical, this unique and compelling verse memoir offers a deeply serious meditation on the difficulty of nurturing our dreams in a world bound in time.

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