Elvis Alves Blackfish

Listen to poet Elvis Alves reading from his latest poetry collection: Blackfish.

 

Blackfish locates beauty in the horrid and strange that constitute familial and social history.

 

“Elvis Alves’ book Blackfish is a moving and powerful collection of poems both immediately accessible, and rich with complex allusions that move smoothly from the Bible through to Jazz and Reggae, current affairs, and genetic inheritance. The book presents poetry about diaspora and displacement, about class struggle, servitude and oppression, music, survival, love, hate, and every shade in-between. They are moving, personal, and universal, and every poem has the undeniable ring of painful but essential truth.''- Magdalena Ball, Author of Unmaking Atoms