Contesting Heaven and Earth, in Shakespearean Verse!
(Now joined by the author's audiobook narration)
Angels skirmish in space, prophets hold kingdoms to ransom, and shapeshifting goddesses come to men in their sleep. Hailed as "an exemplar of epic poetry" (San Francisco Review of Books), LeRoy recalls the great works of Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare with his otherworldly scenes.
1.Obama's Dream
Troubled dreams plague a president as a devil whispers into his ear, and Donald Trump waits in the wings. Now enter two great angels on a divine mission to save Obama's soul, and with it, all of humanity. This journey will transport you through time and space, even to the throne of God.
Does Obama heed Heaven's message? You decide!
“This is the fourth book by LeRoy that I’ve reviewed, and hands down, uncontested, it is far and away the most hilarious… immensely entertaining, well researched, creative, thought-out, and delivered."
William Mortensen Vaughan
2.Elijah
Israel. 9th-century BC. Jezebel has killed the true prophets of the Lord, and Elijah must flee her wrath.
But he is not alone. Embraced by a shapeshifting goddess, counseled by a great angel, he is empowered to call down fire from Heaven!
This 12-part epic reimagines the spectacular miracles of the great prophet as described in the Old Testament—raising the dead, commanding the rain, calling down fire from Heaven, while weaving a rich thread of mythological influences.
Raunchy yet reverent, Elijah's story takes wing in the poet's pen, the poet's voice!
3.Jezebel's Lament
Jezebel. Yes,thatJezebel. The queen whose name for millennia has stood for female wickedness. Killer of innocents. Seducer of priests. And the Old Testament's greatest supervillain!
Not so fast, says Jezebel herself. Mad as hell at the reputation history has dealt her, she enlists "a failed writer of obscure poetry" to tell her side of the story.
Not "harlot queen", she insists, but "virgin bride", not murderer but moderate, and certainly not the bad guy in her struggle with the prophet Elijah, that "unkempt fire-and-brimstone hairy hermit", and his successor Elisha.
It's a riveting and saucy yarn, weaving invention around Scripture's narrative, while offering compelling insights into the "monsters" who live, and even rule, among us!
Let this royal rant transport you to one of the Bible's greatest showdowns, and into the mind of a great antagonist.
