{"id":1342,"date":"2024-02-22T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2024-02-22T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:32:47","slug":"odd-arcana-tarology-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/odd-arcana-tarology-for-beginners","title":{"rendered":"Odd Arcana: tarology for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Odd Arcana: tarology for beginners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Toti O’Brien<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Odd Arcana<\/em> is odd, as the title discloses. It plays with the idea of the Tarot major arcana. It respects their numbers (22) but can\u2019t remember their names or their symbols, so it makes them up. It starts with the images. Poems follow\u2014from within the images. There\u2019s no plan, but there is a flow. The prose poems in italics mimic divination, but they are eminently ignorant of the art, so they don\u2019t know what they are saying. They pretend but from the bottom of their heart. The reader is free to bluntly ignore them. They don\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sleepwalker <\/em>by Toti O’Brien
24″x24″; oil, collage, and assemblage on board; 2021. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Toti O’Brien writes that this book is “an intimate illustrated reverie, with some hidden flesh and blood roots, or tendrils.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You like looking at the moon in the face
sustaining the ambiguity of her gaze.
You think you understand her.
After all, you can be elusive as well.
Are the two of you related? Once
you must have been.<\/p>\n-Toti O’Brien<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong>
Odd Arcana: tarology for beginners<\/em>
by Toti O’Brien
50 pages; 8.5″x8.5″
ISBN 979-8388526977
$12
Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library<\/a>, California, United States, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can purchase the book from Amazon<\/a> or email the artist<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Toti O’Brien
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