Literary witches A celebration of magical women writers
Book - 2017
"Literary Witches draws a connection between witches and visionary writers: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery. Through poetic portraits, Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan honor the witchy qualities of well-known and obscure authors alike, including Virginia Woolf, Mira Bai, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Octavia E. Butler, Sandra Cisneros, and many more.
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Illustrated works - Published
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New York :
Seal Press, Hachette Book Group
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 128 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781580056731
- Foreword / by Pam Grossman
- Emily Brontë: watcher off the moors, fantasy, and cruel romance
- Octavia Butler: sower of strange seeds, species, and the future
- Shirley Jackson: witch of villages, horrors, and omens
- Eileen Chang: enchantress of bitter love, treachery, and jewels
- Sylvia Plath: fury of motherhood, marriage, and the moon
- Toni Morrison: queen of miracles, generations, and memory
- Anna Akhmatova: koldunya of winter, endurance, and willows
- Joy Harjo: cosmic traveller of crows, horses, and survival
- Flannery O'Connor: seer of peacocks, weird country people, and glass eyes
- Sappho: siren of the lyre, honey, and ruins
- Forugh Farrokhzad: rebel of sensual love, green gardens, and perfume
- Emily Dickinson: specter of windows, flies, and the unexpected
- Audre Lorde: warrior witch of otherness, bodies electric, and sisterhood
- Angela Carter: fairy godmother of bloody tales, the circus, and mirrors
- Virginia Woolf: guardian of the waters, the porcelain, and the lexicon
- Sandra Cisneros: hechicera de los nombres, las casas, y la soledad
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: soothsayer of utopias, creeping women, and evil wallpaper
- Jamaica Kincaid: sorceress of islands, venom, and histories
- Anne Carson: high priestess of scholars, volcanoes, and eros
- Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller of rattlesnakes, turquoise, and the sacred desert
- Alejandra Pizarnik: fantasma of silence, death, and lilacs
- Mirabai: dakini of holy ecstasy, the Dark One, and ankle bells
- Anaïs Nin: undine of introspection, opulent dreams, and voyages
- Gertrude Stein: madame of roses, geometry, and repetition
- Yumiko Kurahashi: sibyl of masks, extraterrestrial eggs, and twisted fantasies
- Agatha Christie: Grand Dame of trickery, murder, and teatime
- Janet Frame: hermit of hospitals, belonging, and lost souls
- María Sabina: shaman of dew, hummingbirds, and mushroom language
- Mary Shelley: alchymist of monsters, children, the living and the dead
- Zora Neale Hurston: conjurer of hurricanes, zombies, and tall tales.
