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Morgan Parker Gets a Tattoo

来源于:THE NEW YORKER
Midway through my conversation with the poet Morgan Parker, she suggested a diversion: “Do you want to get tattoos?” Parker, who is twenty-nine and grew up hanging around skate parks in Southern California, had fourteen already. She got the first—an apple on her right wrist—when she was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, at Columbia University. In 2012, when she completed her poetry M.F.A., at New York University, she had the Blue Note Records logo inked on her thigh. Last year, after she published her first book and got a day job working as an editor at Amazon, she got “reparations” tattooed across her wrist in an elegant, galloping script; she likes the disconnect between the difficulty of the word, at least as most people perceive it, and the prettiness of the font. The tattoos with text, she explained, are “things that I need to read and see every day. They become mantras.” There are bits of poetry by Langston Hughes and Lucille Clifton on her right and left forearms, respectively, 查看全文>>