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To Run Wild In It: A Handbook of Autonomic Tarot

To Run Wild In It is a book about tarot, an experimental novella, a ‘channelled’ text and an extension of ideas first broached in David Keenan’s acclaimed debut novel, This Is Memorial Device.

Drawing on influences as diverse as Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, Aleister Crowley, Allen Van Newkirk, John Waters, Laura Branigan and Iggy Pop, To Run Wild In It ranges across ideas of art, magick, synchronicity, pop music, dreams, visions, poetry and experimental prose in an attempt to map the possibilities of spontaneous inspiration.

It also functions as a tarot workbook, with deeply personal mediations on the cards’ archetypal energies combined with an intuitive and highly original re-engagement with their divinatory potential. It is also a book about books, an Oulipo-style literary gambit that blurs the line between art and magick in an experiment in poetic consciousness.


Rough Trade Editions - No. 7

Rough Trade Editions is a series of pamphlets bringing together the very highest calibre of artists, writers, poets, musicians, photographers, illustrators and thinkers to tell the stories of why counter-culture matters, has mattered, and will always matter.