Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos » June Jordan http://www.contrariwise.org Tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:57:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2 Poems http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/01/18/2-poems/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/01/18/2-poems/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:00:56 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=484 tattoos from 2 poems
These tattoos were submitted by Carl:

Right Forearm: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” – June Jordan, from “Poem for South African Women” from Passion: New Poems 1977-1980

Left Forearm: “The year burns an icon into the blood.” – Yusef Komunyakaa, from “1984″ originally published in I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head

The Komunyakaa one was my first tattoo- 1984 is also my birth year. I used the June Jordan line (with the contraction that is not in the original poem) in a sculpture during my Senior Thesis show.

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