Book Review: "The Word Made Flesh" by Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor
Summary from BN.com: The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide is a guide to the emerging subculture of literary tattoos—a 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—and statements from the bearers on their tattoos' history and the personal significance of the chosen literary work— The Word Made Flesh is part collection of photographs and part literary anthology written on skin. My husband has 3 tattoos on his body. I have none. I have never had any desire to have a tattoo (I have had my eyebrow pierced but that's a story for another day) on me. I don't know if it's because of the pain or if it's because I'm wary of having something put on my body that will stay on me forever. But then, I've never thought about having a literary...