Category: Literature
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Home Behind and World Ahead: Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 9
Card of the day: Eight of Cups What I like most about the eight of cups image is the constellation of a cup in the sky. It’s a ninth cup in the image, though it’s the eight of cups card. The constellation of course holds the symbolism of stars as literal guides by compass; but Read more
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The Exeter Book: A Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 5
Advent Tarot Day 5: 3 of Pentacles Reversed Of course it would happen sooner or later: a repeated card. This is the beauty of Tarot: it gives us an opportunity to dwell longer on an image and its story. I want to focus on an Advent lyric from the Exeter Book as it’s about foundations Read more
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dark business: A Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 4
Judgment reversed: Day 4 They have risen from the dead. How long have they been dead? Does that matter? No—what matters is the call, the trumpet of renewal has sounded by the lips of the angel Gabriel, the giver of divine messages. It’s their second coming, their chance at new life. This card gets to Read more
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Linda Hogan’s poem “Eucalyptus” and Imagining the Self
By losing herself, the speaker in Linda Hogan’s poem finds herself: “and like the tree I can lose myself/layer after layer.” “Eucalyptus,” the first poem in her collection Rounding the Human Corners, though it begins in the present, quickly references the ancient past to draw upon its wisdom (“the others are Read more
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Growing Love and Thorns
“Growing Love and Thorns While Reading Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’” My husband and I, fatigued from pandemic fear and wishing to travel as Covid-19 restrictions had decreased, planned a trip to Europe this summer. We wished to visit friends in Austria and Belgium who couldn’t attend our wedding in 2021, and my husband had Read more
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“That Hairy Heart Inside of Us”
“That Hairy Heart Inside of Us” – Some thoughts on Daniel Ogden’s new book and wolves. “To be rigorous about wolves—you might as well expect rigor of clouds.” – Barry Lopez Of Wolves and Men Daniel Ogden’s new book The Werewolf in the Ancient World is a survey of primarily classical Greece stories of Read more
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Beasts of Prairie and Woods
Review of Beloved Beasts by Michelle Nijhuis Corpses of bison strewn across a field. An 1899 woodcut of a woman adorned in feathers, a live bird, clutched by its tail, held aloft in one hand. A man wearing a camouflage coat wades through snow, hoping to find wolf tracks, eager for “the visitors Read more