The Hispanic Invasion of Texas

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Caroline Harper New introduces Maria Esquina’s “The Hispanic Invasion of Texas” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. When I came across this poem, I was drawn in by Esquinca’s use of fragments to create porosity between past and present, disparate locations, and individual bodies. […]

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Caroline Harper New introduces Maria Esquina’s “The Hispanic Invasion of Texas” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. When I came across this poem, I was drawn in by Esquinca’s use of fragments to create porosity between past and present, disparate locations, and individual bodies.