Black Velvet Elvis Poetry in their basement in a

in their basement in a small town on the edge of the Black Forest during the Second World War

Black explores facets of life ranging from the natural world

Certain poems threaten

Disney’s Jiminy Cricket remains

Black Velvet Elvis Poetry in their basement in aThe 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