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Dorothy Parker's elbow : tattoos on writers, writers on tattoos / edited by Kim Addonizio and Cheryl Dumesnil.
LIBRA PS648.T37 D67 2002 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tattooing--Fiction.
- Tattooing.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 264 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Warner Books, [2002]
- Contents:
- From "The 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 "The 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
- The Y / Brenda Hillman
- from "The 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.
- ISBN:
- 0446679046
- 9780446679046
- OCLC:
- 49320414
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