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).
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Taisia Kitaiskaia is a Russian-American poet and writer who writes about fairytales, witches, and the old crone of Slavic folklore: Baba Yaga. She is the author of Literary Witches (Hachette/Seal), an NPR Best Book of 2017; a divination deck, The Literary Witches Oracle (Clarkson Potter, 2019); and two books of experimental advice from a witch of Slavic Folklore, Baba Yaga (Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles and Ask Baba Yaga: Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times). She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the James A. Michener Center for Writers. Her work has been published in Gulf Coast, Story Quarterly, Fence, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, and Guernica. She has written for The Hairpin, Electric Literature, Jezebel, and Bitch Media, and she has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, the writer Fernando A. Flores.Больше книг от того же автора (ов) / редактор
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