Dorothy Parker's Elbow by Kim Addonizio

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Dorothy Parker's Elbow by Kim Addonizio

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In the bestselling tradition of DRINING, SMOKING AND SCREWING: GREAT WRITERS ON GREAT TIMES, comes this hip collection of classical and contemporary writers on tattoos.

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Dorothy Parker's Elbow by Kim Addonizio

Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the services, tattoos have crawled out society's fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. In this volume writers like Herman Melville, Elizabeth McCracken, Ray Bradbury and Sylvia Plath offer stories in which the full tattoo experience is brilliantly captured and explored. The modern tattoo industry is as comfortable on the mall as on the docks, with today's tattoo parlour denizens likely to be folks who work 9-5 or teach economics at the local college, and this collection pulls us into that alluring world, capturing the mysterious fascination this practice has for us and defining the emotions and intensity attached to being tattooed.

Kim Addonizio teaches privately as well as being a prizewinning writer of both poetry and prose.
* Cheryl Dumesnil teaches poetry at Santa Clara University as well as being a published poet herself.

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ISBN 13 9780446679046
ISBN 10 0446679046
Title Dorothy Parker's Elbow
Author Kim Addonizio
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Year published 2003-01-02
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.