Kirjahaku

Inside is a collection of creepy, crawly, crafty, corky, quirky, delectable, & delightful stories, poems, and a variety of words In homage to Ovid, Kafka, Kubrick, Vonnegut, Jr. & Big Willy Shakespeare, Zipp Toto wears his influences, like his heart.... In 2018, Zipp published his first novel, "The Memoirs of David H. Sinclair: Living Life to the Fullest " and luanched it on Evelyn Sinclair's 92nd birthday. Zipp, son of Skip, then embarked on publishing a book a month for a year "The Creature" marks his third book in the series, his April book. It was launched on his father's 80th birthday celebration Happy Birthday Big Poppa

Zipp Toto's debut novel, Beef, is a whirlwind of absurd realism, a slice of beef, so rare...it's raw. You are what you read.

Rap Poems by Zipp Toto's alter egos: Black Ghost & Toothless. In this collection, a perfection, a resurrection of inflection, in diction, a pinch-in, a vision revisioned, inner beats and rhythms, deep seeds are risen, an ineffectual fall, an intellectual stall, a call: in dissonance, a fragrant vibrance, this exuberance exhilarates to titillate and invigorate your senses, two cents is worth a dime, when dropped in rhyme, and just in time.

In part deux, the follow-up to Zipp Toto's debut novel, BEEF, the July book in his book-a-month for a year attempt, comes: Ground Beef. A groundbreaking, genre-bender that dissolves the lines between novel and poem, between writer and reader, between taste good and bad. In the continuing adventures of Heave Buchannan--man who can remember the future--we uncover through humour and puns and stuff, Alberta's fall and rise in the 20th centrury, an Orwellian critique of oil-based industry, ranching, and war. Orwell meets Garcia-Marquez meets Vonnegut, Jr. meets Gary Larson's Farside....at a cheap vegas buffet...lollipopping for days Make it yours today

Rules are Meant to be Broken Warning: this is a sexy book. Please Mum, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. In Zipp Toto's book-a-month quest, Secret Spark marks his August book--that though it came late, is a serious case of PP: Premature Publication.

A found computer tower. A missing editor. In Apartment 9b, fairies from all over the world have migrated to feast on the poems of Patti Puffinease--only to tend to torture, derision, erasure, and silence. In Zipp Toto's graduate thesis, when the literary world of poets was split into Spoken Word vs. Page Poets, Come See seeks to have them dance together. The literal and the oral overlap, two wings to the same sweet bird, in the flight known as poetry. This is a companion piece to The Vidyodhara: a factocritical fractal; a critical exploration into the realms of belief, language, and imagination. The thesis to end all thesis. An anti-thesis. Zipp Toto (aka Andre Rodrigues), graduated with an MA in English from the University of Calgary, was managing editor of dANDelion, produced a collection of short films, SALT: films from the Hair, and is in the band, Moon, Moon, No Moon.

In 2007, Andre' Rodrigues began his MA thesis about why he didn't want to write a thesis. It was an anti-thesis; as such, it had to be a thesis to end all thesis. In it, he addresses belief, language, myth and posits a unifying theory, talks about Faith, God, Death, & Love, plausits Compatalism--the bastard child of Capitalism and Communism--portraits the Superegolessid, and doodles the schematics to a perpetual energy device. From Derrida to Dangerous, literary theory is flipped on its head, through language, through word, through sound, & expressed through unbridled imagination. Over 10 years ago, he had to cut it down to a 25-page essay, but today, it is collected in its entirety to his humility. Zipp Toto is Nairobi-born, Fort McMurray-bread, and Calgary-buttered wondering wandering storyteller teacher. He is in a band, Moon, Moon, No Moon