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Title: Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos by Kim Addonizio, Cheryl Dumesnil ISBN: 0-446-67904-6 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a rich collection for writers & body art addicts alike
Comment: I bought this while on vacation in San Francisco and read the entire thing on the plane back to New England. A great variety of short stories, essays, and poetry, this collection brings together a lot of powerful pieces of writing. Tattoos are examined from many different perspectives, ranging from a tool of intimidation and punishment to something beautiful and otherworldly. Parts made my skin prickle and my hair stand on end, bracing for the touch of the needle. I'd been thinking about getting a new one. Reading this solidified that decision.
My favorites: Murguia's "A Toda Maquina" & Orlowsky's "Tattoo Thoughts"
Rating: 5
Summary: A "pre"-review
Comment: Cheryl Dumesnil was one of my professors in college. I have not read this book yet, but based on her abilities as a teacher, I am totally looking forward to reading it.
Rating: 5
Summary: ink on ink
Comment: Addonizio's and Dumesnil's anthology on writings on tattoos is a great collection of work. You can't go wrong with the writings inside.
There is some great (and at times surprising) fiction inside, which includes: an excerpt from Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," Sylvia Plath's story "The Fifteen Dollar Eagle," and Flannery O'Connor's "Parker's Back." O'Connor is always a joy to read, and this story is an especially good one. There's even a piece from Herman Melville (selected from Typee). Steve Vender has a most interesting piece on meeting one of the gang members he is to defend--this is a fascinating piece. And there are also vignettes scattered throughout where people discuss their tattoos, as well as other pieces of fiction.
And there's poetry by Thom Gunn, Kim Addonizio, Bob Hicok, Mark Doty, Cheryl Dumesnil, J.D. McClatchy, Tony Hoagland, Brenda Hillman, Laura A. Goldstein, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Michael Waters, Joseph Millar, Katharine Whitcomb, Eliot Wilson, Bruce Bond, Virginia Chase Sutton, Lissette Mendez, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Denise Duhamel.
Not only does it look impressive, it reads very, very well. I'm not surprised that Addonizio put together such a strong selection of work. I can't think of any other person who would have been more suited to this type of anthology. It's a great collection, one I'm sure everyone would enjoy reading.
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Title: Jimmy & Rita: Poems by Kim Addonizio ISBN: 1880238411 Publisher: BOA Editions Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems by Kim Addonizio ISBN: 0393057267 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: In the Box Called Pleasure: Stories by Kim Addonizio ISBN: 1573660817 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Tattoo Encyclopedia : A Guide to Choosing Your Tattoo by Terisa Green, Greg James ISBN: 0743223292 Publisher: Fireside Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Tell Me: Poems (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 61) by Kim Addonizio ISBN: 1880238918 Publisher: BOA Editions Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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