Elvis Presley's Hips & Mick Jagger's Lips is rock and roll in poetry. The poems cover a range of subjects related to music, organized into three sections: "The Honey Thing," (relationships); "Mood Alteration," (substance abuse and shifts in emotion); and "Write a Song About It," (the music business and its relationship to other aspects of life). Each poem also departs in unique ways from rock and roll, its lyrics and history.