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All Shook Up!
Collected Poems about Elvis

Edited, with an Introduction, by Will Clemens
Photographs by Jon Hughes

A collection of our greatest poets' writing about Elvis Presley whose fame and popularity have far exceeded Andy Warhol's "fifteen minute" limit.

Joyce Carol Oates on Elvis


This anthology of poems about Elvis invites readers to experience the connection between the historical and mythical status of The King, on the one hand, and the poetic imagery of him on the other. All Shook Up! combines history and myth and art—in the words of some of our most well–known poets and in the elegant and revealing photographs of Jon Hughes.

Contributors' notes and comments follow the poems and serve to help the readers familiarize themselves with the poets and how they write.

Joyce Carol Oates on Elvis


Contributors  
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Richard Blessing
Don Bogen
Neal Bowers
Van K. Brock
Charles Bukowski
Lucille Clifton
San Cornish
Maudelle Driskell
Cornelius Eady
Alice Fulton
Brian Gilmore
Thom Gunn
Andrew Hudgins
Fleda Brown Jackson
Herbert Woodward Martin
Lynne McMahon
Joyce Carol Oates
David Ray
David Rivard
James Seay
Dan Sicoli
Terry Stokes
Dabney Stuart
Elizabeth Ash Vélez
Diane Wakoski
David Wojahn

2001
6" x 9" 112 pages
22 black and white photos
$18.95 (s) paper
1-55728-704-X

Will Clemens holds a B.A. degree in English and history, an M.A. in English, and an M.F.A. in creative writing. His writings have been published by several periodicals, including the Explicator, the Kenyon Review, and Rain Taxi. Since 1997, he has edited fiction for the Antioch Review, and taught at the University of Cincinnati.

Co-founder of photopress, Jon Hughes, professor of English and journalism at the University of Cincinnati, is an award-winning journalist, author and photographer.


Joyce Carol Oates

Waiting on Elvis, 1956

This place up in Charlotte called Chuck's where I
used to waitress and who came in one night
but Elvis and some of his friends before his concert
at the Arena, I was twenty-six married but still
waiting tables and we got to joking around like you
do, and he was fingering the lace edge of my slip
where it showed below my hemline and I hadn't even
seen it and I slapped at him a little saying, You
sure are the one aren't you feeling my face burn but
he was the kind of boy even meanness turned sweet in
his mouth.

Smiled at me and said, Yeah honey I guess I sure am.

 

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