Contetns
Introduction
Thom Gunn | Elvis Presley [1957]
Herbert Woodward Martin | Miss Rosie Mae Watches Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show [1958]
All the Stars Are Foxfire [1979]
I Stopped in Tupelo, Elvis [1979]
Mary’s Dream [1979]
Sphinx [1979]
Richard Blessing | Elegy for Elvis [1981]
Thom Gunn | Painkillers [1982]
Don Bogen | All Shook Up [1986]
Neal Bowers | On the Elvis Mailing List [1987]
Joyce Carol Oates | Waiting on Elvis, 1956 [1987]
David Rivard | Cures [1988]
Dan Sicoli | “All Shook Up” [1988]
James Seay | Audubon Drive, Memphis [1990]
Dabney Stuart | Fishing with Elvis [1990]
W.C.W. Watching Presley’s Second Appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”: Mercy Hospital, Newark, 1956 [1990]
The Assassination of Robert Goulet as Performed by Elvis Presley: Memphis, 1968 [1990]
Nixon Names Elvis Honorary Federal Narcotics Agent at Oval Office Ceremony, 1973 [1990]
Elvis Moving a Small Cloud: The Desert Near Las Vegas, 1976 [1990]
At Graceland With a Six Year Old, 1985 [1990]
Pharaoh’s Palace (Memphis, 1998) [1990]
Ai | The Resurrection of Elvis Presley [1991]
Cornelius Eady | Young Elvis [1991]
Andrew Hudgins | Versification of a Passage from Penthouse [1992]
Neal Bowers | Conversions [1993]
Lucille Clifton | them and us [1993]
My Father’s House [1993]
Elvis [1993]
Brian Gilmore | Elvis [1993]
Fleda Brown Jackson | Elvis at the End of History [1993]
Lynne McMahon | An Elvis for the Ages [1993]
Elizabeth Ash Vélez | Elvis P. and Emma B. [1993]
Diane Wakoski | Blue Suede Shoes [1993]
About Face [1995]
Some Cool [1995]
Elvis from the Waist Up, excerpted from “Wonder Stings Me More Than The Bee,” a part of the sequence “My Last TV Campaign” [1995]
Mail and A New Release, both excerpted from “Give: A Sequence Reimagining Daphne & Apollo” [1995]
Charles Bukowski | Elvis lives [1996]
Elvis Sings Gospel [1997]
Elvis Goes to the Army [1997]
Elvis Acts as His Own Pallbearer [1997]
Elvis Reads “The Wild Swans at Coole” [1999]
The Women Who Love Elvis All Their Lives [1999]
The Death of Gladys Presley [1999]
I Visit the Twenty-four Hour Coin-op Church of Elvis [1999]
Sunday Morning [1999]
The Brides of Elvis [1999]
Maudelle Driskell | Talismans [1999]
Terry Stokes | The Elvis Elevator [1999]
Contributors’ Notes and Comments