The Cards We've Drawn

By Scot Slaby

Poetry. THE CARDS WE'VE DRAWN is divided into two sections: the first consists of a Celtic Cross style reading of eleven Tarot cards, their descriptions followed by a first person narrator ruminating on his life's relationship to the cards. An explanation of this Tarot reading style can be found in Arthur Rider-Waite's A Pictorial Key to the Tarot, from which many of the first eleven poems' titles have been adapted. The second section consists of nine sonnets and quatorzains that address the speaker's life after the cards. Detailed descriptions of the sonnetto- rispetto form and of the various other sonnets and quatorzains employed throughout this chapbook can be found in Lewis Putnam Turco's The Book of Forms, A Handbook of Poetics, Including Odd and Invented Forms, Revised and Expanded Fourth Edition. While some of the poems in this chapbook have been inspired by my life, I do not consider the work to be autobiographical in nature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892471760
• ISBN13: 9781892471765
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Bright Hill Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 3.9" x 5.9"