Count the Ways: A Poet's Oracle

This is a gorgeous, colorful, 36-card tarot size deck made for artists, poets, card readers, or anyone who is looking for a charge of creative energy!

Each card is a portal into the world and language of a specific poet.

The cards feature original analog, hand cut and pasted collage art that has been scanned into digital form, embellished with additional art layers, and finished with a few lines of a poem from each of 36 different poets. All of the poems are in the public domain, having been published prior to 1927.

Included in each deck is an extensive, full color 16 page guidebook with the name of each poet in alphabetical order, the lines that are also printed on the poet's card, the poem that the lines are taken from, the years the poet was active and where they primarily lived, the school or style with which the poet is associated, and major themes of the poet's work.

Also included is one of my most popular deck features, the three card spread for each poet. This way you can easily use this oracle deck in combination with your tarot deck. Simply pull a card from the Count the Ways deck, then use the associated three-card spread with your tarot card for a complete divination reading.

The deck comes with a full-color tuck box that I also designed and which can double as a spread cloth if desired.

This deck came from my love for and extensive study of poetry. I have a B.A. in American literature with an emphasis on modern American poetry. I have been reading, studying, and writing poetry my whole life. My hope for this deck is that it carry the magic of language to inspire and delight readers, writers, artists, mystics, and any other creative person who is captivated by the written word.

Included poets are:

• Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867
• William Blake 1757-1827
• Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861
• Robert Browning 1812-1889
• Robert Burns 1759-1796
• Lord Byron 1788-1824
• Lewis Carroll 1832-1898
• Stephen Crane 1871-1900
• ee cummings 1894-1962
• Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
• Hilda (H.D.) Dolittle 1886-1961
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1875-1935
• TS Eliot 1888-1965
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
• Robert Frost 1874-1963
• Langston Hughes 1901-1967
• John Keats 1795-1821
• Mina Loy 1882-1966
• Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
• Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950
• AA Milne 1882-1956
• Marianne Moore 1887-1972
• Pablo Neruda 1904–1973
• Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849
• Ezra Pound 1885-1972
• Carl Sandburg 1878-1967
• William Shakespeare 1564-1616
• Anne Spencer 1882-1975
• Gertrude Stein 1874-1946
• Wallace Stevens 1879-1955
• Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
• Walt Whitman 1819-1892
• William Carlos Williams 1883-1963
• William Wordsworth 1770-1850
• W.B. Yeats 1865-1939