Becoming Coztōtōtl. By Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros
“Becoming Coztōtōtl is composed of eighteen poems that celebrate the forces that have made claims on us since the beginning of time: our bodies,our land, our families. Throughout these pages, Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros honors our children,our mothers, and our antepasados with a subtle lyricism that demands our attention.Read these poems. They are timely in their defiance of injustice, timely in their unfeigned compassion.”—Octavio Quintanilla, San Antonio Poet Laureate and author of If I Go Missing
“Becoming Coztōtōtl is composed of eighteen poems that celebrate the forces that have made claims on us since the beginning of time: our bodies,our land, our families. Throughout these pages, Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros honors our children,our mothers, and our antepasados with a subtle lyricism that demands our attention.Read these poems. They are timely in their defiance of injustice, timely in their unfeigned compassion.”—Octavio Quintanilla, San Antonio Poet Laureate and author of If I Go Missing
“Becoming Coztōtōtl is composed of eighteen poems that celebrate the forces that have made claims on us since the beginning of time: our bodies,our land, our families. Throughout these pages, Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros honors our children,our mothers, and our antepasados with a subtle lyricism that demands our attention.Read these poems. They are timely in their defiance of injustice, timely in their unfeigned compassion.”—Octavio Quintanilla, San Antonio Poet Laureate and author of If I Go Missing
Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros is a Tejana, Mujerista, and Chicana from San Antonio, Texas. Her work explores faith and storytelling. She is the 2019 recipient of the Rubem Alves Award in Theopoetics and is a current graduate student in the MA in English with emphases in literature, creative writing, and social justice at Our Lady of the Lake University.