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5.0
In Divining Bones, Bondhus creates a conversation with the reader, asking that they consider Baba Yaga as not only a crone but also a guide to understanding gender. Here, magic and witchcraft give a voice to the voiceless. As someone who loves fairy tale poetry that acts as resistance, I want everyone who's interested in transformational bodies to read this collection.
"We had known no magic but the Catholic kind,
wine turned into blood on Sunday.
The Justice of the Peace extracted promises
form the narrow, painful spaces between our teeth.
Every time we spoke we fancied our mouths full of galaxies.
I went to the dentist and he found a planet beneath my gums."
"We had known no magic but the Catholic kind,
wine turned into blood on Sunday.
The Justice of the Peace extracted promises
form the narrow, painful spaces between our teeth.
Every time we spoke we fancied our mouths full of galaxies.
I went to the dentist and he found a planet beneath my gums."
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