EN TEREX IT
EN TEREX IT: ENCOUNTERS AROUND THE TAROT, VOL I
ENRIQUE ENRIQUEZ
This is the first of two volumes that gather a series of interviews and conversations between tarotist, philosopher, and visual artist, Enrique Enriquez and other seminal voices in the cartomantic community.
Forty-seven tarot luminaries (readers, historians, philosophers, magicians, and scientists alike) gather here to offer unique perspectives on divination.
Some of the central questions that Enriquez deals with are the following: do we read the cards for the symbol or the image? Do we read for the narrative that the cards create or their potential for transformation? Do we read for the plot, the poetry, or the formal properties inherent in the design?
6×9” | B&W | 358 pp
ISBN 978-8792633217
CATEGORY
Divination
EDITION
Standard paperback 2012 | $19.95
NOTE
Interviews
REVIEWS
Enrique Enriquez is a great innovator in the world of tarot. Setting himself against the enormous modern preoccupation of the English-speaking world with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck and its many offshoots, Enrique pledges allegiance to the older and relatively unpopular Marseille tradition. He approaches the cards not as a doorway into mysticism or as a branch of psychotherapy, but as a visual work of art capable of producing great poetry. Of course poetry can be prophetic and healing too. These two volumes of interviews feature Enrique interrogating a number of fascinating personalities from a variety of disciplines, including tarot celebrities such as Rachel Pollack, Mary Greer, and Robert Place, about their own approaches to tarot. Some succeed in withstanding his intimidating intellectual sophistication heroically, while others fare less well. But there is humour and insight on every page, and every interview is thought-provoking. The overall effect is to massively expand our appreciation for the tarot itself. Like Enrique's beautiful first book Tarology, which is certainly the strangest book about tarot ever written, the philosophical and poetic concerns of these two volumes are a million miles above the many ‘how to’ beginners guides to the subject that are currently flooding the market. Mind expanding. — TOM THORNBURY
