Altered Tarot - by R Tanksley (Paperback)

About the Book

Containing more than eighty affecting poems and photographs and organized into a 5-card tarot spread in four parts, this collection traverses the elements air, water, earth, and fire and maps an unending journey of self-discovery.

Book Synopsis

Altered Tarot: The End of Love asks readers to disentangle from the past and prepare for what is approaching. r. tanksley's deeply personal poems are set atop k. hiatt's bold photography creates a work that exemplifies the duality inherently present in the world. This duality, an important aspect of tarot practice, manifests in the spaces between day and night, black and white, negative and positive-the spaces between raw emotion and spiritual familiarity.

Containing more than eighty affecting poems and photographs and organized into a 5-card tarot spread in four parts, this collection traverses the elements air, water, earth, and fire, and maps an unending journey of self-discovery. Present themes include loss, grief, heartache, trauma, womanhood, and finding power in actively healing.

Review Quotes

Robyn Tanksley has danced with the Devil and somehow managed to not only have survived it, but to have chronicled the odyssey in vivid, poetic detail. Through its unique and gripping format, Altered Tarot leads the reader through romance, abuse, heartbreak, and eventual recovery, experienced as a tarot reading. Tanksley's elegant poetry is paired beautifully with Kristin Hiatt's dreamily somber photography, together creating an experience that is chilling and transformational. An insightful union of two voices, one photographic and one written, in harmony, Altered Tarot is a poetic report from the other side of chaos on how to navigate your way there.

-ROBERT WYNIA, author of Night Walks: Poems and Lyrics