Knuckle Tattoos is Puma Perl's first full-length poetry collection, published by erbacce-press, a follow up to her award- winning chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends. Puma won the 2009 erbacce-press prize for poetry and this collection constitutes the reward.As described by Bonnie Rosenberg, "Perl's new collection of poems, "Knuckle Tattoos," chronicles her journey from self-destruction through the rocky road to recovery and self-realization. It is a gut wrenching, straight-talking, introspective, take-no-prisoners bumpy ride in which she looks at her life straight in both eyes and makes it blink. The title says it all. Knuckle tattoos are exposed, and "fisted letters don't hide meanings entwined in lies and butterflies."Published by erbacce-press, Liverpool, UK, 2010. Cover photo MCM Zone, author photo, Maria Cabrera, creative advisor, Lorenzo Tosado. Cover design, editing and typesetting, Alan Corkish.