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Dorothy Parker's Elbow - Kim Addonizio & Cheryl Dumesnil

By Kim Addonizio & Cheryl Dumesnil

Release Date: 2009-10-14

Genre: Fiction & Literature

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Stories, poems, and memoirs about tattoos, from notable authors such as Flannery O'Connor, Rick Moody, Elizabeth McCracken, Sylvia Plath, and more.

Once the province of sailors and bikers, tattoos have emerged from backdoor parlors to suburban shopping malls. Today they adorn starlets' ankles, housewives' shoulders, and bankers' biceps. Fashionable? Most definitely. Respectable? Not always. Evocative, transformative, still dangerous? Just ask many of our most gifted writers across several colorful decades, who have found the images of the tattoo needle a vivid subject for the language of the pen. Brought to you by two editors who are themselves widely praised (and proudly tattooed) authors, these stories, poems, and memoirs span that range of human experience, from the awesome to the absurd. From Flannery O'Connor's likeness of God to Sylvia Plath's fifteen-dollar eagle, from Herman Melville's power of the primitive to Mark Doty's embrace of the ineradicable to Franz Kafka's lasting mark of the penal colony, this bold exploration of the illuminated body is guaranteed to get under your skin.

Dorothy Parker's Elbow - Kim Addonizio & Cheryl Dumesnil

By Kim Addonizio & Cheryl Dumesnil

Release Date: 2009-10-14

Genre: Fiction & Literature

(0 ratings)
Read Download
Stories, poems, and memoirs about tattoos, from notable authors such as Flannery O'Connor, Rick Moody, Elizabeth McCracken, Sylvia Plath, and more.

Once the province of sailors and bikers, tattoos have emerged from backdoor parlors to suburban shopping malls. Today they adorn starlets' ankles, housewives' shoulders, and bankers' biceps. Fashionable? Most definitely. Respectable? Not always. Evocative, transformative, still dangerous? Just ask many of our most gifted writers across several colorful decades, who have found the images of the tattoo needle a vivid subject for the language of the pen. Brought to you by two editors who are themselves widely praised (and proudly tattooed) authors, these stories, poems, and memoirs span that range of human experience, from the awesome to the absurd. From Flannery O'Connor's likeness of God to Sylvia Plath's fifteen-dollar eagle, from Herman Melville's power of the primitive to Mark Doty's embrace of the ineradicable to Franz Kafka's lasting mark of the penal colony, this bold exploration of the illuminated body is guaranteed to get under your skin.

More by Kim Addonizio & Cheryl Dumesnil

The Poet's Companion

Ordinary Genius

Bukowski in a Sundress

Tell Me

What Is This Thing Called Love

Lucifer at the Starlite

Little Beauties

Mortal Trash

Now We're Getting Somewhere

Wild Nights

My Dreams Out in the Street

Exit Opera

Dorothy Parker's Elbow

The Palace of Illusions

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