{"id":3350,"date":"2011-07-20T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:00:23","slug":"literary-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"Literary Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3351\" style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artandmylife.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/29\/tattoo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3351\" title=\"kerouac.tattoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kerouac-tattoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kerouac-tattoo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kerouac-tattoo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kerouac-tattoo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kerouac-tattoo-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph: Tess Adamski\u2019s Jack Kerouac tattoo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tattoos that imprint favorite poems or bookish quotes on the skin fascinate me. Some, like the one above, take it to a whole new, imaginative level. Check out more literary tattoos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrariwise.org\/\">Contrariwise<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tattoolit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Word Made Flesh<\/a>, an extension of the book featured below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/word-made-flesh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3354 alignleft\" title=\"word.made.flesh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/word-made-flesh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a>Publisher&#8217;s Summary<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong>The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide<\/strong> <em>is a guide to the emerging subculture of literary tattoos\u2014a collection of more than 150 full-color photographs of human epidermis indelibly adorned with quotations and illustrations from Dickinson to Pynchon, from Shakespeare to Plath. With beloved lines of verse, literary portraits, and illustrations\u2014and statements from the bearers on their tattoos&#8217; history and the personal significance of the chosen literary work\u2014<\/em><strong>The Word Made Flesh<\/strong><em> is part collection of photographs and part literary anthology written on skin<\/em>.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b2992646~S50\" target=\"_blank\">Check the catalog for availability<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tattoos that imprint favorite poems or bookish quotes on the skin fascinate me. Some, like the one above, take it to a whole new, imaginative level. Check out more literary tattoos on Contrariwise and The Word Made Flesh, an extension of the book featured below. Publisher&#8217;s Summary &#8220;The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-S2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}