Divining Poets: Dickinson bookcover

Divining Poets: Dickinson

David Trinidad 

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Turtle Point Press is pleased to introduce the Divining Poets Quotable Deck Series. These elegant, boxed sets of seventy-eight cards à la tarot decks feature short quotes meant to inspire, provoke, and guide users--to contemplate, memorize, or answer life questions. Here is the ever-astonishing Emily Dickinson.

David Trinidad was struck by the Magic 8 Ball sound in his favorite bits from Emily Dickinson's poems--mystical answers to questions one might ask about life and death. He chose seventy-eight, the number of cards in a tarot deck, and found they worked. This is a superlative selection of indelible gems to guide, ponder, and quote.

The set includes a display stand, plus an instruction card with tips on how to use the deck. This is pocket-sized wisdom to give and to keep, here in perfect time for the holiday season.

Product Details

PublisherTurtle Point Press
Publish DateNovember 05, 2019
Pages78
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconCards
EAN/UPC9781933527987
Dimensions5.3 X 4.0 X 1.6 inches | 0.9 pounds

About the Author

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), the great visionary poet whose idiosyncratic style, intense inner life, and eternally questioning mind make her one of the most fascinating and beloved American writers and the perfect medium for this divination deck. A "passenger of infinity," Dickinson contemplated the "little Mysteries" that "harass us - like Life - and Death" and came up with these breathtakingly ethereal answers.
David Trinidad is known for the masterful use of popular culture in his poems. His work is also associated with the innovative formalism of the New York School. Originally from Los Angeles, Trinidad lives in Chicago, where he is a professor in the Creative Writing Department at Columbia College.

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"[Trinidad's] most impressive gift is an ability to dignify the dross of American life, to honor both the shrink-wrapped sentiment of the cultural artifacts he writes about and his own much more complicated emotional response to them."--New York Times Book Review
"There is an unwavering light in all of Trinidad's work that turns individual words into objects, new facts."--Alice Notley
"Trinidad turns the paste jewels of pop art into the real thing."--James Schuyler

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