The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole: An Aurora Levins Morales Reader

by Aurora Levins Morales

Overview

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales. Combining well-known excerpts from her books with out-of-print and harder to find ephemeral works and unpublished pieces, this collection weaves together stories of bodies, ecologies, Indigeneity, illness, travel, sexuality, and more. As Levins Morales reflects on her use of storytelling as a tool for change, she gathers the threads of lives and places sacrificed to greed and extraction while centering care for our individual bodyminds and those of our kin, communities, and movements. This comprehensive and essential collection provides an unprecedented window into the breadth and depth of the work of one of the most significant thinkers of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478059912
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Publication date:	09/25/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	488
File size:	846 KB

About the Author

Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist. She is the author of many books, including Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, also published by Duke University Press.

Table of Contents

Gratitudes  xi
Introduction: Explico Algunas Cosas  1
1. This Is My Name  21
2. Earth Body  61
3. The Tool of the Story  119
4. Mapping Where it Hurts  159
5. Making Medicine  181
6. The Story of What is Broken is Whole  235
7. Ancestors  269
8. Ceremony  327
9. Prophecy  377
Where to Go From Here  401
Supporting Aurora’s Work  407
Index  409

What People are Saying About This

Dori Midnight

“Aurora Levins Morales’s work changed my life, and this book is a robust gathering of that work; a generous and wild harvest of five decades of writing from our beloved madrina curandera historian. Like the Yerba Bruja plant she writes about, whose leaves can sprout even when pressed between the pages of a book, Aurora’s work both is rooted in and roots us in earth; her words reach for and guide us toward greater connection, liberation, and healing. Full of story-remedies, poem-incantations, and heart-opening prose, each piece in this collection is a revolutionary call and response with plants, stones, water, history, ancestors, and life itself.”

Editorial Reviews

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole is cause for jubilation, finally bringing together in one volume over forty years of essays and poetry by one of the major poetic thinkers of our time. Aurora Levins Morales has long written from and about the many different forms she and our survival and liberation can and must take. To have all these stories in one volume, brilliantly edited and introduced by the author herself, is to be heartened and emboldened.

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