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"By Danny Caine and Tara Wray\n\"An entertaining book of poetry about Kansas fast-food restaurants.\"—Denise Neil, The Wichita Eagle\nEl Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast food poetry.  In \"Olive Garden,\" \"Culver's,\" \"Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen,\" \"Cracker Barrel,\" \"Applebee's (after James Wright)\" and other poems, Caine \"reviews\" chain restaurants, taking on topics such as parenting, the Midwest, politics, and chicken fingers along the way. Caine's funny, deceptively accomplished poems are paired with Tara Wray's color-drenched photos. The result is a literary yet goofy book about American food and identity,  set in a Midwestern landscape where people eat at chain restaurants, even when they know better.\nDanny Caine is the author of Continental Breakfast (Mason Jar Press, 2019) and the chapbook Uncle Harold’s Maxwell House Haggadah (Etchings Press 2017). His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Hobart, Barrelhouse, The New Ohio Review, and other places. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Kansas. Hailing from Cleveland, he now lives in Lawrence, Kansas where he’s the owner of the Raven Book Store. More info at ravenbookstore.com and dannycaine.com.\n\nTara Wray is a photographer based in Vermont. Her most recent photobook, Too Tired for Sunshine, was published by Yoffy Press in 2018. Born and raised in Kansas, Wray has directed two feature length documentaries: Manhattan, Kansas (Audience Award, SXSW 2006; Film Society of Lincoln Center) and Cartoon College (Official Selection, Vancouver International Film Festival 2012). She curates interviews with photographers at Vice and at BUST Magazine—where her focus is on giving voice to women in photography—and is photo editor of the literary journal Hobart. More info at www.tarawray.net.\nMore praise for El Dorado Freddy's: \n\"El Dorado Freddy’s: Chain Restaurants in Poems and Photographs, as a title, only scratches at the surface of the treasures within.... Caine’s work has a tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek appeal that is sly enough to fool the people who believe Popeye’s chicken could be considered healthy, and funny enough to make the rest of us laugh, or groan, to ourselves. Wray’s images in El Dorado Freddy’s are understated in their Steven Shore-esque ability to capture the essence of a meal when we’d rather not admit to, but cannot stop from embracing.\"—Cary Benbow, F-Stop magazine\nMARCH 3, 2020 | ISBN: 978194742627 | POETRY | $20 | PAPERBACK | 122 PAGES"
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