Woods Wolf Girl

By: Cornelia Hoogland

April 2011
96 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-53-0
$17.00

Cornelia Hoogland takes the story of Little Red Riding Hood and turns it inside out in this sensuous Canadian retelling. The woods and wolves are vivid and real, while Red herself is anything but a one dimensional girl-child. A meditation on innocence and its loss, and on the power of the green wilderness, Woods Wolf Girl uses striking lyric poetry to expose the heart of the original fairy tale.

Book Reviews

• Woods Wolf Girl (Kara A. Smith, BCBookWorld, September 2011)

• Review (Ronnie R. Brown, Canadian Bookseller, December 2011)
  "Poet and dramatist Cornelia Hoogland is an expert at spinning fables, and nowhere is this more evident than in the earthy sexual tension exploding between a B.C. Wolf and a girl named Red."

• Everything gleams with possibility for Banff writer (Jennifer Still, Winnepeg Free Press, 5/28/2011). “Brilliant and stark, Hoogland's poems are an imagistic treat, green as tadpoles in a pickle jar, red as ‘rain the shade of lips by Chanel.’”

Interviews

• One Question Interview (Alex Boyd, BoydBlog, 08/04/2011)
• Poets in Profile: Cornelia Hoogland (Erin Knight, open Book Toronto, 4/2/2011). “Cornelia Hoogland's new collection, Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak & Wynn), takes Little Red Riding Hood into the Canadian woods and turns her tale on its end with sensuous and daring lyric poetry.”

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