“Boys become crones; baked bread becomes a baby; electricity turns out to be Jesus; a first grade class stages Oedipus Rex. At the center of it all stands Baba Yaga, the child-eating forest witch and earth goddess of Russian folklore. Under her tutelage, Michael Bondhus uses the occult and the magickal to explore the fluidity of age, gender, and self-perception in this radical and playful book. ‘Where divination meets poetry in extraordinary fashion!’ After a while you can look to this book for answers, opening and closing it nine times with a question in mind, the poet Michael Bondhus leading the way. Magic spells and paranormal experiences abound among beautifully written lines by a poet we will all want to share and know. I love this book!”
—CAConrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death
