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A History of My Tattoo: A Poem

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A History of My Tattoo is a book-length poem in ten parts that investigates the two major American tragedies of the late twentieth century--the defeat of U.S. forces in Vietnam and the plague of HIV/AIDS?as witnessed by the volume's narrator. Its surrealistic terrain includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, is peopled by drag queens, soldiers, the homeless, and the narrator who has just been released from a psychiatric ward in an undisclosed city, and is haunted by the bells of a cathedral ringing in not just the new year but the new?the twenty-first?century.

Language: English

Pages: 101

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Brickhouse Books, Inc.

Release: January 01, 2006

ISBN: 0932616801

ISBN 13: 9780932616807

A History of My Tattoo: A Poem

4.5/5 ( ratings)

A History of My Tattoo is a book-length poem in ten parts that investigates the two major American tragedies of the late twentieth century--the defeat of U.S. forces in Vietnam and the plague of HIV/AIDS?as witnessed by the volume's narrator. Its surrealistic terrain includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, is peopled by drag queens, soldiers, the homeless, and the narrator who has just been released from a psychiatric ward in an undisclosed city, and is haunted by the bells of a cathedral ringing in not just the new year but the new?the twenty-first?century.

Language: English

Pages: 101

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Brickhouse Books, Inc.

Release: January 01, 2006

ISBN: 0932616801

ISBN 13: 9780932616807

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