The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide

A guide to the emerging subculture of literary tattoos — a collection of 100 full-color photographs of human skin indelibly adorned with quotations and images from Pynchon to Dickinson to Shakespeare to Plath. Packed with beloved lines of verse, literary portraits, and illustrations — and statements from the bearers on their tattoos’ history and the personal significance of the chosen literary work — The Word Made Flesh is part photo collection, part literary anthology written on skin.

• Author
• Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 174

• Publisher
• Harper Perennial

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-06-199740-2

• EAN
• 9780061997402

• Genres
• art, photography, literature, adult, reference, history

• Release date
• 2010