Ask Baba Yaga Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

by Kitaiskaia, Taisia

• ISBN13: 9781449486815
• ISBN10: 1449486819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-09-26
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Summary

With a strange, otherworldly style, poetic clarity, and striking honesty, Ask Baba Yaga contains beautifully skewed wisdom to be consulted in times of need.

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.
 

Author Biography

Taisia Kitaiskaia was born in Russia and raised in America. She is the author of Literary Witches (Hachette/Seal Press), illustrated by Katy Horan, and is the recipient of a James A. Michener Center for Writers MFA fellowship. Her poetry and prose have been published by Gulf Coast, Guernica, Crazyhorse, Jezebel, and Electric Literature, among many others. Baba Yaga lives deep in a treacherous wood; Taisia lives in Austin, Texas.