How to be a Tarot Card (or a Teenager)

by Jennifer a McGowan

Overview

How to be a Tarot Card (or a Teenager) explores, exploits, and sometimes downright twists the major arcana and the meanings they have accumulated, in the order in which the many hundreds of tarot decks now travelling the world present them. The Star, connoting hope, exists simultaneously as metaphor and feral dog; the rebirth nestled inside the Death card becomes female friendship and escape from patriarchal binds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913665647
Publisher:	Arachne Press
Publication date:	10/27/2022
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Jennifer A. McGowan lives in Oxford. Despite being certified as disabled with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome at age 16, she became a semi-professional mime and performed in five countries till the disability became too much. More recently she has worked as researcher, editor, and writer for a strategic management company. She has taught both under- and postgraduates at several universities, in subjects as varied as English, history, and heritage studies. Jennifer's first full collection With Paper for Feet was published by Arachne Press. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Connecticut Review, Pank, The Rialto, Poetry Salzburg, Acumen, and Agenda; her chapbooks, Life in Captivity and Sounding are available from Finishing Line Press. Still Lives with Apocalypse (Prolebooks) won the Prole pamphlet competition in 2020, and Jennifer won the Scottish Mountain Writing competition the same year. Her work has been anthologised in many places including Arachne Press' The Other Side of Sleep, and No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book. Her songs have been recorded on several labels.