An Austrian literary organization came up with a series of temporary tattoos of vanguard women authors and artists, including Leonora Carrington, Remedio Varo, Giannina Braschi, Anna Kavan, Inger Christensen, Christine Brooke-Rose, and Ilse Aichinger.
Lisa Spalt, creator of these wonderful and whacky tattoos, posted them on Twitter.
Tattoos of Women Poets and Artist
Giannina Braschi Tattoo!
Fun factoids about poet tattoos:
Nick Flynn shares his poem entitled Tattoo with Poets.org.
Poet Joy Harjo talks about her tattoo with New York State Writers Institute.
Lady Gaga has words of wisdom by Rilke on her arm.
Kathy Acker dedicated a novel to her tattoo artist.
Giannina Braschi is now a tattoo.
Best American Poetry cheers on Bill Cohen, one of their favorite bloggers, for assembling tattooed poets for the site Tattoosday’s in tribute to National Poetry Month.
Kathy Acker’s awesome back tattoo, the most badass combination of birds and flowers and koi we’ve ever seen. “The tattoo is primal parent to the visual arts,” she wrote in Empire of the Senseless. “Beginning as abstract maps of spiritual vision, records of the ‘other’ world, tattoos were originally icons of power and mystery designating realms beyond normal land-dwellers’ experience… In decadent phases, the tattoo became associated with the criminal — literally the outlaw — and the power of the tattoo became intertwined with the power of those who chose to live beyond the norms of society.”
Fun fact: Acker dedicated the novel to her tattoo artist.
Literary Ink: Famous Authors and Their Tattoos
Emily Temple, FLAVORWIRE
Wasser-Tattoo-Set zum Inkarnationsprojekt des Instituts für poetische Alltagsverbesserung. Edition kleine Brötchen 2021. Featuring Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Anna Kavan, Giannina Braschi, Inger Christensen, Christine Brooke-Rose, Ilse Aichinger.
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