The story of what is broken is whole : an Aurora Levins Morales reader /

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 Combining well-known excerpts from her books with out of print and harder to find ephemeral works and unpublished pieces, this collection...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levins Morales, Aurora, 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • This is my name
  • Sugar poem
  • Child of the Americas
  • Class poem
  • Wings
  • Truths our bodies tell
  • Stricken
  • Listen, speak
  • Yerba bruja
  • Dulce de naranja
  • First snow
  • That bridge
  • Eath body
  • Monense
  • A story
  • chicken house goat girls
  • Nadie la Tiene : land, ecology and nationalism
  • Mountain moving day
  • Patients
  • Teeth
  • Coming out sick
  • Burnt light
  • Body compass
  • Fatigue #1
  • Poem for the bedridden
  • Rematriation : a climate justice migration
  • The tool of story
  • Art and science
  • The historian as curandera
  • a poet on assignment
  • Civil disobedience
  • Paris
  • Baghdad birthday
  • Guanakán
  • Mapping where it hurts
  • Revision
  • Frontier cooking
  • Brown birds
  • Letter to a compañero
  • Endangered
  • Unobituary
  • Questions for the media
  • Sacrifice zones
  • Making medicine
  • Ecology Is everything
  • 1515: Plátano
  • Kitchens
  • Hold the coffee
  • Vivir para tí
  • Prayer for White allies
  • Transfusion
  • Exoskeleton
  • A remedy for heartburn
  • Radical inclusion
  • Land days
  • Milk thistle
  • Breath: 2020
  • The story of what is broken is whole
  • From dark of the year
  • Salt : February 2000
  • Difficult love: March 2000
  • Historical marker: May 2002
  • Metal to the forge
  • Plaza de Juárez
  • Stroke
  • 1919: Lost bird : Western United States
  • Lament
  • Eshú in Ukraine
  • Buried poems
  • Mothers
  • Gaza nights: January 2009
  • Guerrilla psych
  • Histerimonia : Declarations of a trafficked girl, or Why I couldn't write this essay
  • Ancestors
  • First mother : Maghreb (-300,000)
  • Old world: -100, 000
  • Guakía Yahabo
  • 1695: News of Sor Juana
  • 1873: The freedwomen contract themselves
  • Tsu Got Vel Ikh Veynen
  • Prologue to Filigree
  • Voices of the dead
  • Water front
  • Memorial
  • Muna Lee
  • Fidel
  • A Boricua speaks of rivers
  • Memoir of a collaboration
  • My father's hand
  • Introduction: New Orleans
  • Ceremony
  • Tashlich
  • Dark of the year : December 2002
  • Shema : September 12, 2001
  • Grave song for immigrant soldiers
  • Silt of each other
  • Silt sequence
  • Rain
  • Vena Cava
  • Baño
  • Bees
  • Resurrection
  • Slichah for a Shmita Year
  • Braided prayer
  • Water road
  • Prophecy
  • Awake
  • 1954: Transition
  • Speaking of Antisemitism
  • Tai: A Yom Kippur sermon 5778/2017
  • V'ahavta
  • Will we?
  • Where to go from here
  • Supporting Aurora's work.