Hi incorrigible! First off thank you SO MUCH for playing so many of these games and giving awesome thorough feedback. You seriously rock and I'm grateful for your presence here. And welcome to your first game jam!

This game was fun once we were finally able to start playing. In hindsight it would have been easier to print and cut the cards, but I just used a deck and had to search the 5 deck PDFs for each card. It was especially tedious because they weren't organized by suite or anything, but we got there eventually! This if anything made me want to quite (just a simple out-of-loop failure that would have been avoided altogether had we just printed to cards). 

I played the 2 player one, and the instructions were unclear (?) at the onset so we ended up both picking a card and revealing it at the same time for the refrain. Our refrain was the very poetic "before through" 😂This made us both laugh and smile, a happy accident of the game. I honestly was impressed with the end result as well — I was a bit skeptical of a coherent poem forming, just because I felt like my hand was more nouns than verbs, but it came out pretty neat:

before through
gender, my mirror
wed honor as
success. object so
one solve(s) rapture

The companion pieces made this feel extremely fleshed out! Not only are they marvelously written, they add a narrative element to it that builds the world for me. I got pulled in. While I've never read Shadowgraphs, now I want to. 

Overall I loved this as a poetic experience, and am very impressed by the ingenuity it must have taken to make. Very well done!

P.S. I don't think I have time to record myself playing the solo on today (before voting closes), but I'm going to try to do it next week, when I have more time!

I've played the solitary game and I tried to play Ghazal by myself when handling 2 hands.

I'll provide more remarks on the game-side as I'm way more confident with this (as a game designer).

I really like the idea of combining card games with poems so for the experientation I give 5. It's clearly innovating with the medium.

For the interactivity I'll give it 4. This game exists solely through interaction and I would have givent it a 5 if the resulting interaction always was producing verses or poems. It's not always the case, sometimes the interaction takes over the poetry.

For the polish I'd give a 2. For me it's a prototype which still needs testing with players. I found the rules not explicit enough, which for a game is a big problem, a game is a set of rules. For example what does it mean that cards "cohere"? are they a pair of identical symbols, or figures, or just that words from the two cards seem coherent?
For solitaire I just went with my own set of rules to be able to play the game, but for the Ghazal I really had difficulties, I do not know what is expected from me (I suppose when you know what Ghazal is maybe it's easier, but I've read the wiki page on Ghazal and it didn't help at all, so I went with my own rules but playing by myself it wasn't fun so I stopped).
For the solitaire, what is absent is the explication on "cohere" and also the numbers associated with figures (I assumed J = 11, Q=12 et K=13, A = 1 but what do I do with the king in this case as it is 13 all by itself, => I changed rules to pair it with  J= 0 and two kings which "cohere" I guess ?). But what was detrimental to my experience is that solitare game actually requires remembering cards, it's a lot of mental effort so the poetry is left a bit on the side. Either I try to play solitare or I'm doing a poem. Not two at the time. And frankly solitaire isn't an interesting game, especially if you don't put the mental effort. So the game part isn't fun. it's not a problem generally, but usually what is expected from card games is that they are fun, challenging etc. What I did to make it more fun was read the words aloud and it sort of became a poem I guess. But I don't know if this is intentional.
Lastly, the game requires a certain effort from the player to prepare, cut out all the cards, each card has to be cut out separately etc. that's not something a casual player will be willing to do, For a finished game I suppose it would be better to create your own cards that are layed out nicely on 3-4 pages and that can by cut easily all at the same time with a guilotine (much quickier). But for the prototype the format you gave is perfectly ok !

For the poem I'm giving 3, because as it is, it's more a game than a poem. I see the potential. and I guess it would benefit or play better if the game rules part was diminished, use simplier games like asimple tarot game, where you just lay the cards in no particular order creating word verses etc.
I liked the letters that accompagny your game-poem, it's a pity that they don't really have any influence on whats happening during the game. but they definitely give this a sense of sort of holisting experience, a game that exists in some fictional world. I really liked this.

but all in all it's a very interesing piece :) 
congrats on taking the risk!

Just to be clear: the following opinions belong to @lynchpoet, one of the people whose work is featured on the Misery Tourism itch.io.  I submitted work to this jam, so I'm voting here, but we're a collective.  

I like this a lot, even though I'm not into philosophy (and I think that most of the textual stuff from Kierkegaard has gone over my head).  

EXPERIMENTATION:  I give this a 4 for experimentation, because the elements of the ghazal it uses—specifically the audience/public participation aspect common in mushairahs, mixed with the mechanical lens of the cards—create an atmosphere in poetry that I don't really believe exists in the traditions of recitation and presentation that I've personally seen.  Further, the cards present a fairly unique way of generating public participation around an artist's work that is really awesome (you mention in the essay that you can basically play this with poems you create, which is great).  I know of some games that do similar stuff with haiku ( Poet Glorious by Kimberley Lam is one example I can think of off the top of my head ), but the use of the ghazal as the centerpiece, and the goal of the work to, as you put it, "...demonstrate by example how both canon-critical and original works in philosophy can be done outside the confines of the now-standard treatise, essay anthology, or journal article" is incredibly out there.  The idea of having some kind of philosophical debate or forum (or even an academic dissertation, or, fuck, even a diatribe/manifesto of some kind) based around a game, where the mechanics inform and arbitrate, is pretty wild shit.

INTERACTIVITY:  I give this a 5 for interactivity, since, uhh, it's literally all interactivity.  It's play that generates discussion.  Sweet.  The companion pieces were cool, and definitely helped me understand the context of the philosophy better, so even if  those aren't strictly interactive, I think they serve an important purpose.  

POLISH:  I think this is a pretty polished piece (leaning towards 4).  One thing I wasn't 100% clear on is how to choose a winner in the Ghazal (the game text mentions a winner at step 6, and I think it's the person who runs out of cards, but what happens if both players decide the verse is complete?).  Could just be something I'm missing.  

POETRY:  This occupies a space at the literal intersection of poetry and gaming (in all senses of that word).  I'm giving it 3 to represent that.  I wish that instead of a 5 star thing, I could just give the answer "Yes" to the question: "Is this a poem or is it a game?"