Our next tattooed poet is Chris McCreary:
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"This design, an embellished version of the City Lights Books logo, was my first tattoo. At the time, I felt it important to make a permanent vow to poetry on my skin itself, and no design better represented a commitment to challenging, innovative poetry than the City Lights logo. The artist was a jerk, the piece didn't heal that well, and it's certainly faded over time, too. And while I've gone on to get other, more technically impressive tattoos over the years, this one remains my favorite. The tattoo, like my poems themselves, might be cracked and imperfect, but it persists nevertheless, just like the poems themselves."Chris also sent us this poem:
The Harrowing
When I was a child I talked like I was taught to say that signifiers form a complex
web. Then I became a man & placed a postage stamp of a famous Modernist on my Verizon bill. So
Jacques Derrida where is the solace for I am balding & hemorrhoidal. See I saw
the oblivion & when I stopped to drink it in, I missed dibs on the astrolabe & so was left to throw
rocks at wind chimes, torch the observatory, bury it all elbow down & salt the ground as after- thought. Jacques
Lacan, why do I bother. I was soiled before I even began & still could care less how we harrow unless it meant to thresh
as in limen, this boring earth turned vortex through which I might finally try to tesser.
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Chris McCreary is author of three books of poems. His fourth collection, [ neüro / måntic ], should be forthcoming in early 2015. Along with Jenn McCreary, he co-edits ixnay press (www.ixnaypress.com). Thanks to Chris for sharing his tattoo and poem with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!
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