El Dorado Freddy's - by Danny Caine (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 150
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Subjects & Themes
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Age Range: Teen
Book theme: Places
Author: Danny Caine
Language: English

About the Book

A collection of accessible, humorous poems about chain and fast food restaurants

Book Synopsis

El 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.

Review Quotes

You may look down your nose at fast food restaurants for any number of reasons, but you cannot deny their significance. ... El Dorado Freddy's, a collaboration by poet Danny Caine and photographer Tara Wray, gives these familiar outposts their complete attention. It is a splendid twofer that pairs two sequences by two artists in two different media on one theme and with one binding. ...Though this book actually left me craving fast food (something I haven't eaten in a long time), I didn't feel gross and bloated after devouring it. Instead, I went back for seconds, starting at the beginning and reading it again.--Dallas Crow, Rain Taxi Review of Books