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From the beloved online advice column, Ask Baba Yaga is a collection of off-kilter, sometimes funny, and always strikingly honest advice, answering real reader questions about relationships, self-knowledge, and how to face our troubling world. 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.

With a strange, otherworldly style, poetic clarity, and striking honesty, Ask Baba Yaga contains beautifully skewed wisdom to be consulted in times of need. 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. This is a collection of her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice.

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