La Dona La Llorona

La Doña 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 Doña 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 Doña 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.