Black Velvet Elvis Poetry He was the first non-fiction

He was the first non-fiction writer to be appointed Writer-in-Residence at the University of Waterloo

Metafictional appearances are made by characters as diverse as J

’ This conformance with reality is abetted by his very effective use of rhyme and metre

slightly surreal quality in the poet’s memory

Black Velvet Elvis Poetry He was the first non-fictionThe 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