Special thanks goes to RJ Walker and Elle Alder for introducing me to this book in their podcast Mancy. Baba Yaga’s wisdom has cold, glittering eyes, but sometimes snow angels are closest we’ll ever get to heaven. There are plenty of cryptic bits like sticks of cinnamon to chew and suck. The advice is frequently heavily poetic and metaphor, taking cues from the cliches and phrases in the inquirer’s question and fleshing them out with fantasy and grit. Enjoy the witchy, clever, candid advice of Baba Yaga in all of her otherworldly. These pages collect her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice. If I were you, I’d buy an illustrated hard copy and read some advice out of it every morning. Poet and author Taisia Kitaiskaia embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide poetic life advice to the questioning and the hurting in this audio collection of her books, Ask Baba Yaga and the all-new Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times. In contemporary life, Baba Yaga-a dangerous, slippery oracle-answered earnest questions on The Hairpin for years. I especially recommend this book for lovers of tarot and magic, but on the real, we all need this kind of medicine on occasion. The Baba Yaga inside tells him she does not know where to find the thrice tenth kingdom, but to ask her sister. Taisia Kitaiskaia, the mind behind Ask Baba Yaga, tells Broadly that she sees Baba Yaga as an aspirational figure. A fascinating cross between poetry, magic, and self-help, Ask Baba Yaga transforms one medium’s advice column into a rich book of prose poetry, tackling the complex contours of contemporary society with both classic questions like “how do I get over this breakup?” and some funny-ass curve balls like, “how do I stop falling in love with everyone I meet?” I especially appreciate the dives into deeply relatable 21st century questions like “How Do I Deal with Climate Change?” and “How Do I Live in Peace as a Trans Woman?” Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles by Taisia Kitaiskaia With a strange, otherworldly style, poetic clarity, and striking honesty. Many of Baba Yagas fans playfully call her a feminist icon.
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