Taisia Kitaiskaia

Celebrate the witchiest women writers with beautiful illustrations and imaginative vignettes. Literary Witches draws a connection between witches and visionary writers: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery. Through poetic portraits, Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan honor the witchy qualities of well-known and obscure authors alike, including Virginia Woolf, Mira Bai, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Octavia E. Butler, Sandra Cisneros, and many more. Perfect for both book lovers and coven members, Literary Witches is a treasure and a source of inspiration. Kitaiskaia and Horan bring fresh insights on your most beloved authors, suggest enchanting new writers, and invite you to rediscover the magic of literature.

A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Literary Witches

A self-help book with a poetic twist, using the character of the witch Baba Yaga to present beautiful, often humorous, nuggets of truth about love, relationships, and life. Dear Baba Yaga, I think I must crave male attention too much. I fear that, without it, I would feel invisible. BABA YAGA: When you seek others this way, you are invisible nonetheless. Yr shawl is covered in mirrors in which others admire themselves; this is why they greet you so passionately. It is good to be seen, but it is better to see. Find a being to look hard into, & you will see yrself and what is more than you. In age-old Slavic fairy tales, the witch Baba Yaga is sought out by those with a burning need for guidance. In contemporary life, Baba Yaga--a dangerous, slippery oracle--answered earnest questions on The Hairpin for years. These pages collect her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice. With a strange, otherworldly style, poetic clarity, and striking honesty, Ask Baba Yaga contains beautifully skewed wisdom to be consulted in times of need.

Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

Ask Baba Yaga

Katy Horan

En una noche de luna llena, las brujas se reúnen para invocar el poder femenino, la poesía y la fuerza de su corazón. Nada las detiene para crear un hechizo eterno que las vuelva inmortales e invencibles. Conjuran sus letras y la magia sucede. Tanto las brujas como las escritoras han sido símbolo de fuerza, sabiduría y poder. Brujas literarias es una selección de treinta mujeres de letras, de distintas épocas y estilos, en la que se traza una línea que une sus trayectorias y su misticismo. Entre el flujo de conciencia de Virginia Woolf, los dolorosos poemas de Sylvia Plath, la ciencia ficción de Octavia E. Butler, el misterio de Agatha Christie y los rezos chamánicos de María Sabina, este libro funciona como un hechizo para hacernos participar, con otra mirada, de este aquelarre literario. 30 escritoras que conjuraron la magia de la literatura.

Brujas Literarias

Edebiyatin Cadilari

Baba Yaga offers more off-kilter remedies for the modern dilemmas of an unstable age using her uncanny style, poetic simplicity, and surprising candor. In this follow-up to Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, award-winning writer Taisia Kitaiskaia once again embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide life advice to the questioning and the hurting. Answering real questions from readers, Baba Yaga provides responses in the form of short poems that are lyrical, surreal, sometimes funny, and always honest. During these difficult days, Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times provides literary self-help for readers who appreciate Baba Yaga's strange, surprising style and striking honesty.

From Ask Baba Yaga

Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times

En una noche de luna llena, las brujas se reúnen para invocar el poder femenino, la poesía y la fuerza de su corazón. Nada las detiene para crear un hechizo eterno que las vuelva inmortales e invencibles. Conjuran sus letras y la magia sucede. Tanto las brujas como las escritoras han sido símbolo de fuerza, sabiduría y poder. Brujas literarias es una selección de treinta mujeres de letras, de distintas épocas y estilos, en la que se traza una línea que une sus trayectorias y su misticismo. Entre el flujo de conciencia de Virginia Woolf, los dolorosos poemas de Sylvia Plath, la ciencia ficción de Octavia E. Butler, el misterio de Agatha Christie y los rezos chamánicos de María Sabina, este libro funciona como un hechizo para hacernos participar, con otra mirada, de este aquelarre literario.

Brujas literarias

"Ripe with mythic awareness and dark, fairytale-turned-feminist humor, renowned writer Taisia Kitaiskaia's debut poetry collection catalogs magical beasts, language, and the mysteries of our world with wide, witchy eyes. From the author of Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers and Ask Baba Yaga, The Nightgown is a mystic, hungry collection of poems, a roiling landscape wandered over by wild swerves of language, creatures of all sorts, and mysterious beings such as The Folklore, The Hurt Opera, The Eunuch, and the titular angry Nightgown. Haunted by the magic and transformations of Slavic and Western European fairy tales, the symbolism of the Tarot, the medieval world, feminism, and a mythology all its own, The Nightgown bears an immigrant's fascination with the alien syrup of the English language, preserving an ancient consciousness of human, beast, and earth. Funny and loud, the poems are strangely accessible in their animal awareness of mortality and urgency for contact with the unknown"--

The Nightgown & Other Poems

30 escritoras que conjuraron la magia de la literatura

Se toda mulher é bruxa, o que dizer das mulheres que usaram uma dose extra de magia para tecer enredos imortais, conjurar personagens inesquecíveis e plantar poemas exuberantes como árvores frondosas? Partindo desta premissa, a autora Taisia Kitaiskaia e a ilustradora Katy Horan reuniram um coven e tanto em Bruxas Literárias, convocando autoras como Mary Shelley e Agatha Christie, passando por Safo, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, Emily Brontë e Octavia Butler. Vindas de diferentes países, culturas e épocas, estas e outras bruxas literárias formaram um círculo em DarkLove, convocando todos a lhe darem as mãos em uma celebração da força e do poder das mulheres através dos tempos. Com a chinesa Eileen Chang, acendemos uma vela para os amores naufragados. A iraniana Forugh Farrokhzad nos desafia a provar a poção mágica das novas paixões. A argentina Alejandra Pizarnik nos mostra como transitar entre os fantasmas da memória. As palavras encantadas da poeta hindu Mirabai carregam nossos anseios como fumaça de incenso e a japonesa Yumiko Kurahashi nos ensina a abraçar a mulher selvagem que mora em todos nós. Reunindo trinta autoras de todos os cantos do mundo, Bruxas Literárias recria essas escritoras como as feiticeiras das palavras que elas são: mulheres ousadas, de criatividade e originalidade ímpares. Cada perfil é apresentado com três instâncias imaginativas das autoras, seguidas por breve biografia e sugestões de leitura. Para a edição brasileira, a DarkSide® Books apresenta uma galeria especialíssima, com três bruxas literárias nacionais: Carolina de Jesus, Clarice Lispector e Lygia Fagundes Telles. Recriadas com as ilustrações fascinantes e enigmáticas de Gabee Brandão, a tríade brasileira ganha vida eterna nas páginas deste livro encantador e enfeitiçado. Com texto lírico e valente, afinado com a alma DarkLove, Bruxas Literárias abrasa nossa chama interior com um livro-oráculo que nos guia à nossa essência mágica. Coleção Magicae na DarkSide Books Magicae celebra a vida, as fases da lua, as marés internas e os mistérios dos oráculos. Livros repletos de encantamento que honram os poderes ancestrais e cultuam as leis da natureza. A magia que mora no farfalhar das folhas, na alquimia dos aromas, no sopro do vento e no virar das páginas também existe em todos nós. Magicae é o reencontro com a nossa própria essência.

Bruxas Literárias: Alquimia das Palavras

Les sorcières de la littérature

If you seek wisdom from strong, creative women, this oracle deck--which features 30 prominent female writers from literary history--will give you what you seek. The female visionaries in this deck will inform answers to questions about your creative life and spiritual journey. In addition to the portraits of literary heroes--like Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison--and lesser-known trailblazers--like Yumiko Kurahashi and Mirabai--the deck features 40 symbol cards bearing illustrations of potent spiritual icons to enhance your reading. A small guidebook will act as an interpreter, helping you find meaning in the cards based on your specific intentions, the writers' dominant traits, and the spiritual symbols at play.

A 70-Card Deck and Guidebook

The Literary Witches Oracle

Dear Baba Yaga, I think I must crave male attention too much. I fear that, without it, I would feel invisible. BABA YAGA: When you seek others this way, you are invisible nonetheless. Yr shawl is covered in mirrors in which others admire themselves; this is why they greet you so passionately. It is good to be seen, but it is better to see. Find a being to look hard into, & you will see yrself and what is more than you. In age-old Slavic fairy tales, the witch Baba Yaga is sought out by those with a burning need for guidance. In contemporary life, Baba Yaga—a dangerous, slippery oracle—answered earnest questions on The Hairpin for years. These pages collect her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice.

The Nightgown is a mythic, mystic, and hungry collection of poems, a roiling landscape wandered over by wild swerves of language, creatures of all sorts, and mysterious beings such as The Folklore, The Hurt Opera, The Eunuch, and the titular angry Nightgown. Haunted by the magic and transformations of Slavic and Western European fairy tales, the symbolism of the Tarot, the medieval world, feminism, and a mythology all its own, The Nightgown bears an immigrant’s fascination with the black, alien syrup of the English language’s first stratum, that merciless Anglo-Saxon word-hoard preserving an ancient consciousness of human, beast, and earth. Funny and loud, the poems are strangely accessible in their animal awareness of mortality and urgency for contact with the unknown. The Nightgown is the debut book of poetry from renowned writer Taisia Kitaiskaia (Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers).

Czy można cieszyć się szczęściem swojego eks? Jak przestać się wściekać na innych? Dlaczego czas tak szybko ucieka i o co w tym wszystkim chodzi? Życiowe mądrości z przymrużeniem oka prosto z głębi syberyjskich lasów Wiedźma wie wszystko. W starych słowiańskich wierzeniach Baba Jaga uchodziła za postać, która zna odpowiedź na każde pytanie. Taisia Kitaiskaia, która jako dziecko często bywała w dzikich kniejach odległej Syberii, od lat przyjmuje porady od ducha mistycznej staruszki. Nawet te nieproszone. „Baba Jaga radzi” to niezwykły poradnik, w którym znana na całym świecie Baba Jaga pomaga każdemu, kto potrzebuje wsparcia w obliczu codziennych problemów. Jej surrealistyczne, szczere do bólu i często żartobliwe odpowiedzi niosą ulgę wszystkim współczesnym zagubionym duszom. Dzięki tej niezwykłej książce podejdziesz do życia z większym dystansem, spokojem i humorem. Czy tego chcesz, czy nie.

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