Caine, Danny: Continental Breakfast

Mason Jar Press, paperback

Publication Date: April 1, 2019

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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, an often-humorous book, explores the effect of mass commercialism on identity, love, religion, and the American landscape. From Kanye West at Waffle House to dead malls to Passover candy, the book questions how branding and celebrity function as filters through which we see the world.

A finalist for the 2019 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award

Danny Caine is the author of the poetry collections CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Mason Jar Press, 2019) and El Dorado Freddy's (collaboration with Tara Wray, Belt Publishing, 2020), as well as the chapbook Uncle Harold's Maxwell House Haggadah (Etchings Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in DIAGRAM, Hobart, Barrelhouse, and Mid-American Review, among other places. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he owns Raven Book Store.

“Danny Caine’s Continental Breakfast portrays suburban life in the Midwest with humor, pathos, and tender care. Populating chain restaurants, deserted shopping malls, and family Passover dinners, the characters of the poems narrate an experience that, while familiar to many, doesn’t often make it into the pages of poetry collections. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll raise your can of Bud Lite.” -- Megan Kaminski, Author of Deep City