| Description |
xvi, 264 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents |
From "Illustrated man" / Ray Bradbury -- Toda Maquina / Alejandro Murguia -- Grapefruit flesh / Karol Griffin -- Blackie, the electric Rembrandt / Thom Gunn -- My tattoo / Mark Doty -- To the engraver of my skin / Mark Doty -- Dyeing a three-dollar bill / Frank Martinez Lester -- from "White knights" / William T. Vollmann -- Skin / Joseph Millar -- "When I was a kid" / Larry Crist -- For Lysa, who tattoos me in her Miami living room / Lissette Mendez -- Lace / Michael Waters -- Triangle tattoo / Cheryl Dumesnil -- It's bad luck to die / Elizabeth McCracken -- from "The tattoo hunter" / J. Acosta -- Incision / Garnett Kilberg Cohen -- "After the surgery" / Susan Terris -- First poem for you / Kim Addonizio -- Snakes / Jennifer Armstrong -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- "In 1992, I had the tattoo on my arm redone" / Leslee Becker -- Zowie / Karol Griffin -- "I got my tattoo at a time of great upheaval" / Darcey Steinke -- "I'd wanted to get one for years" / Rick Moody -- Tattoo pantoum / Denise Duhamel -- It only hurts a little / Seth Mnookin -- Tattoos / J.D. McClatchy -- from "Typee" / Herman Melville -- from "7 tattoos" / Peter Trachtenberg -- Embellishments / Virginia Chase Sutton -- Tattoo thoughts / Dzvinia Orlowsky -- Fifteen-dollar eagle / Sylvia Plath -- Herstory / Madame Chinchilla -- "I bring my book : prepared to wait" / Cherise Wyneken -- from "Tree" / Deena Metzger -- Becoming bird / Bob Hicok -- Designing a bird from memory in Jack's Skin Kitchen / Eliot Wilson -- Second skin / Bruce Bond -- Portrait / Kirsten Rybczynski -- "When I muse about tattoos" / Joy Williams -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Convict K00457 / Robert C. Allen -- Mando / Steve Vender -- News / Tony Hoagland -- Y / Brenda Hillman -- from "Life and death of Philippe" / Paul Steinberg -- True tattoo / Maureen Seaton -- "I do not have a tattoo" / Susi Richardson -- Wings, fish, star / Laura A. Goldstein -- Benediction / Katharine Whitcomb. |
| Subject |
Tattooing -- Fiction.
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Tattooing.
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| Added Author |
Addonizio, Kim, 1954-
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Dumesnil, Cheryl.
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| ISBN |
0446679046 (pbk.) |
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9780446679046 (pbk.) |
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