The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole

An Aurora Levins Morales Reader

  • Author: Levins Morales, Aurora
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9781478026686
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781478059912
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2024
  • Month: October
  • Pages: 441
  • Language: English
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 Combining well-known excerpts from her books with out-of-print and harder to find ephemeral works and unpublished pieces, this collection weaves together stories of bodies, ecologies, Indigeneity, illness, travel, sexuality, and more.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.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Gratitudes
  • Introduction: Explico Algunas Cosas
  • 1. 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
  • 2. Earth 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
  • 3. The Tool of Story
    • Art and Science
    • The Historian as Curandera
    • a poet on assignment
    • Civil Disobedience
    • Paris
    • Baghdad Birthday
    • Guanakán
  • 4. Mapping Where it Hurts
    • Revision
    • Frontier Cooking
    • Brown Birds
    • Letter to a Compañero
    • Endangered
    • Unobituary
    • Questions for the Media
    • Sacrifice Zones
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 7. 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
  • 8. 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
  • 9. 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
  • Index
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • Q
    • R
    • S
    • T
    • U
    • V
    • W
    • Y
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