Black Velvet Elvis Poetry and Adele at the End

and Adele at the End of the Day (Macmillan 1987)

which jar like a wisecrack at a shiva

a satire of academic and literary life

slightly surreal quality in the poet’s memory

and director of Artful Codger Press

Black Velvet Elvis Poetry and Adele at the EndThe King himself puts in a cameo appearance at a rural Quebec Gas Bar de la Nuit where the glowing ends of several dozen cigarettes counterpoint an urgent bass line to the syncopated doo wap of several tens of thousands of fireflies. In this brilliant and unusual first book of poems Black Velvet Elvis, J. D. Black salutes The King not only with the occasional electric guitar but with stranger and more delicate melodies as well, a few strummed out on