The Wolf at the Door

By Ki Russell

Ars Omnia Press.THE WOLF AT THE DOOR combines fiction and poetry to present the interrupted narrative of Lana, a contemporary revision of the Little Red Riding Hood figure. Each snippet of Lana's story weaves her life ever more densely and intimately into the weft of a wider world of fairy tale-inspired figures, against which the protagonist's story unfolds and through which she discovers who and what she is. Interwoven between the sections of this narrative are poems exploring other fairy tale figures, the perspective of these poems alternating between the contemporary and the timeless time of fairy tales. Baba Yaga appears in her hut in the woods and also as a Kali-figure living among us in the suburbs: devouring, monstrous, sexual, divine. She subsequently appears in the fairy tale tavern where she guides the heroine of the disrupted narrative, who works and interacts with other fairy tale figures traditionally cast as villains. Ultimately, Lana must come to recognize her own identity as both the maiden (Red Riding Hood) and the crone (grandmother) which allows her to draw power from both of these extremes of the female archetype.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500775185
• ISBN13: 9781500775186
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"