Books

Prose-poetry collection

Three Names for Longing

Sehnsucht · Yūgen · Hiraeth

Some feelings arrive before their names do.

A prose-poetry collection in sixty pieces, tracing desire, devotion, memory, distance, and homesickness through Sehnsucht, Yūgen, and Hiraeth. Lyrical and intimate, it moves from tenderness into hunger and from beauty into the ache of what cannot be kept.

Choose this for lyrical, intimate prose-poetry about desire, memory, and the ache of what cannot be kept.

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Travel-folklore collection

Strangers Tell the Oldest Stories

Folk Tales from the Road

Every road carries a story. Every stranger, a world.

A travel-folklore collection of twenty-six literary retellings, carried through roads, buses, ferries, bakeries, graveyards, and old towns across the Baltics, Balkans, Carpathians, and nearby borderlands. Atmospheric and sometimes uncanny, it follows the ordinary encounters through which folklore stays alive.

Choose this for atmospheric, sometimes uncanny folklore carried by roads, strangers, and remembered places.

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Folklore retellings

The Women Who Were Remembered Wrong

These are not new women. Only newly listened to.

A collection of twenty-one literary retellings of women from epic, legend, belief, song, and history across the Caucasus, Anatolia, Central Asia, the Baltic, and neighboring borderlands. Mythic and clear-eyed, it looks past the warning, ornament, or supporting role to see each woman at the scale of her authority, choice, intelligence, and complexity.

Choose this for mythic women, misunderstood power, and old stories read with sharper eyes.

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