What Big Teeth: Red Riding Hood's Real Life

As you venture deep into the shadowy forest, whom do you find more alluring: the strapping, protective Huntsman...or the coiled and hungry passion of the artful Wolf? In What Big Teeth, celebrated poet Lana Hechtman Ayers reveals the true-life story of Red Riding Hood, recounting with tenderness and a new erotic candor both the anguish and hidden pleasures of straying from the well-worn path. Epic in scope but delivered with striking intimacy, the poems move us from the innocence of girlhood through the pulchritude of adolescence, the mendacities of marriage, and the transgression of infidelity. With whom will Red tango in the dark of the woods: the Huntsman or the Wolf? The answer is transcendent. What Big Teeth serves as a powerful prelude to Lana s forthcoming full-length collection, A New Red.

Jeff Gomez, CEO Starlight Runner Entertainment