Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times, Taisia Kitaiskaia
Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times, Taisia Kitaiskaia
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Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times
from Ask Baba Yaga

Author: Taisia Kitaiskaia

Narrator: Zura Johnson

Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2020


Synopsis

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.

In difficult days, Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times provides literary self-help for readers who appreciate Baba Yaga's strange, surprising style and striking honesty. 

About The Author

Taisia Kitaiskaia was born in Russia and raised in America. She is the author of Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles; The Nightgown and Other Poems; and a collaboration with artist Katy Horan, Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, as well as the book's companion, The Literary Witches Oracle. Taisia lives in Austin, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maxine on October 14, 2020

I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook version of this. The narrator's voice for Baba Yaga made the responses even more powerful, raw, and embodied for me.......more

Goodreads review by Genevieve on September 30, 2020

Answers that smell of roots and mushrooms and sky and pond and the dirt under your toenails. A soothing hurricane? Baba Yaga speaks to my insides and probably yours too.......more

Goodreads review by Liz on January 04, 2024

My only quibble is that I wish it had been longer. The advice is actually very good and thoughtful, and the poetry is beautiful. The first wasn’t bad, but the second is great.......more

Goodreads review by Sinking Spring on January 02, 2023

Acerbic and hilarious - Baby Yaga answers modern questions the way you would expect an ancient and grumpy "grandmother witch" to reply. A short, fun read.......more