Drown/Sever/Sing

by Lina Maria Ferriera Cabeza-Vanegas

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Native American Studies. DROWN/SEVER/SIGN is a collection of short stories based on popular Colombian legend and folk tales, retold, recast and reimagined. The book opens with a brief creative nonfiction essay that explains the conceit of the project, to re-appropriate the monsters of folklore and legend, and take William Blake to heart when he wrote, "Invent your own mythology or be a slave to another man's." What follows is a parade of humanized monsters and monstrous humans. Men with axes and devils with chafed inner thighs. Weeping women dreaming of drowning gods and an eleven year old Cain flirting with girls and inventing murder.

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2015