La Dona, La Llorona

La Do a, La Llorona is a poetry book about alienation and inclusion. With imperviousness and ferocity, this famous Mexican ghost crisscrosses the northern border and makes both nations her own. La Llorona is not a sympathetic figure; she preys on children and drowns them in rivers. The stories highlight her pride, beauty, and vanity. In La Do a, La Llorona, the ghost is a woman with a past, a story common to American mythology. She is Mexican, American, a woman unafraid, the most terrifying of specters. In a nation where immigrants face deportation, even death, La Do a, La Llorona is a resounding voice of victory. The ultimate American, she crushes those who bind her. Undefeated. Indefatigable. A fire on the prairie. Rolling in, the blood of the tide.

Author: Paul David Adkins
Publisher: Lit Riot Press, LLC
Published: 06/07/2016
Pages: 90
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d
ISBN: 9780997089363

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