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[Matte] Paperback Book
This 9×6 matte paperback includes 72 ivory pages of poetry & interwoven design, making it a tactile collectible for poetry lovers. Malocchia’s design is reminiscent ofan earthy, heirloom, featuring a kraft brown cover with a natural paper texture, black & crimson etched typography, an evil eye flower illustration evocative of the book’s themes, ivory pages, & delicate interior flourishes that echo the book's ancestral spirit.
*All pre-orders placed from July to September will arrive as a special bundled package: the book wrapped in black kraft paper with crimson twine, paired with a red beeswax taper candle, incense stick, & gold evil eye flower inspired by the book’s atmosphere. Add the corresponding poetic ritual candle to your order to complete the immersive reading ritual.
“Relic of Ancestry” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
An offering to the matriarchs who came before & the ones still becoming, this candle is inspired by the poetry of Malocchia & the ritual of breaking inherited cycles. Bright citrus, sugared plum, & black cherry open like the sweetness of memory before unfolding into saffron, soft violet, clove, & cinnamon—fragrant echoes of old rites & whispered blessings. A grounding base of cedarwood, vanilla, amber, & curling woodsmoke lingers like an ancestral hearth, carrying forth the remnants of lineage.
Adorned with an evil eye charm for protection & a small parchment scroll as a vessel for intention, this candle invites you to honor what has shaped you, release what no longer serves, & kindle the courage to claim your own path.
Scent Notes: Sugared Plum. Citrus. Black Cherry. Saffron. Soft Violet. Clove. Cinnamon. Cedarwood. Vanilla. Amber. Woodsmoke.
Adorned with Scroll & Evil Eye Charm.
QUOTES ABOUT THE BOOK:
What does it mean to be graceful and truly punk at the same time? To inhabit a cultural legacy in order to turn it sideways, examining Self and world through a mirror shattered by spells? In this extraordinary book, Melissa Eleftherion begins to answer these questions. I am moved, in the best ways, by the egg-shaped coffin, the mother-pigeon, the "totem to withstand the gust". Here is the powerful voice of the Survivor, the music of the spheres, and the beauty of our shared primordial Earth meadow glittering, unapologetic, sharp as quartz.
—Caroline Goodwin, author of Matanuska and Old Snow, White Sun
Reading Malocchia is like peering into someone's cellular memories. It is an excoriating & resplendent journey through the rose gardens of time—through layers & textures of ancestry, family, and self. With its varied forms and use of surprising, precise language—which summons both visceral & pastoral magic—Eleftherion braids a daisy-chain of intimacy with darkness itself, and with the curses (Malocchio being the evil eye, according to Italian traditions) that become our albatrosses: "We ate sauce and bread and talked about ghosts and jesters but the ghosts and jesters were in the room with us, and often they were leading the conversation," she writes. Yet, with the fiercest grip, she conjures softness and freedom, and faces the curse: "I have returned to the sea to the mare & rasp the conch and roar of it," she writes. "It is ok to want things."
—Lisa Marie Basile, author of saint of and editor of Luna Luna
