ARCADES TAROT: HAIKU POEMS

This book explores the possibility to fit the essence of six Tarot cards to the constricted structure of the haiku poem. The result is a beautiful economy of thought and image.

Although the book was written as a companion to the limited edition Arcades Tarot cards, it can serve as inspiration and guiding tool for all interested in developing a language of visual synthesis. How do you render a world of Tarot symbolic representations and cultural functions in 17 syllables? By keeping an eye on what goes in and out of the arcades of perception.

All the poems in this book function as a spell, which makes this book a talismanic object.

THREE EDITIONS

This book comes in three editions: an unlimited hardback and ebook editions and a special limited hardback edition as a signed and sigilized accompaniment to 22 copies the Arcades Tarot crafted as a talisman.

THE CARDS

While the talisman edition of cards and book is sold out, the other editions are available, including a standard edition of a set of cards. See a few cards from this edition below, or get the cards here.

Note: this .epub file is in fixed, rather than floating layout. If you don’t have an ebook or an epub reader, you can download Adobe Digital Editions here.