{"title":"Aurora Levins Morales","description":"Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist. She is the author of several books, including Kindling: Writings on the Body and Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas.","products":[{"product_id":"kindling-writings-on-the-body-paperback","title":"Kindling: Writings On The Body - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAurora Levins Morales was born in rural Puerto Rico in 1954, of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish parents. A lifelong feminist and radical, artist and activist, storyteller and historian, her writing bridges the gap between the intimately personal and the global, between sensual experience and theory. In Kindling she explores the meanings of sickness and healing, suffering and pleasure, through the story of her own body, of all our bodies, of the body of the planet. Kindling is a collage of prose poetry, poems, essays, performance pieces and memoir, exploring the rich complexity od living in a physical and social body. From 19th century bomba dancers to the environmental causes of epilepsy from eugenics to the Cuban health care system, from the sexuality of the chronically sick and tired, to a broader interpretation of taking back the night, Levins Morales writes with passion and insight, self-revelation and global, historical perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376594518239,"sku":"9780983683131","price":35.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JNTvpb2Ljb9780983683131.webp?v=1789218112"},{"product_id":"medicine-stories-essays-for-radicals-paperback","title":"Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this revised and expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eMedicine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Calling for a politics of integrity that recognizes the complicated wholeness of individual and collective lives, Levins Morales delves among the interwoven roots of multiple oppressions, exposing connections, crafting strategies, and uncovering the wellsprings of resilience and joy. Throughout these twenty-eight essays-twenty-one of which are new or extensively revised-she exposes the structures and mechanisms that silence voices and divide movements. The result is a medicine bag full of techniques and perspectives to build a universal solidarity that is flexible, nuanced, and strong enough to fundamentally shift our world toward justice. Intimately personal and globally relevant, \u003ci\u003eMedicine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e brings clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376686366943,"sku":"9781478003090","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8HKv9iOgPM9781478003090.webp?v=1789221692"},{"product_id":"silt-prose-poems-paperback","title":"Silt: Prose Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1890s a US congressman argued that the United States had the right to seize Cuba because he believed it was made of silt that had washed out of the mouth of the Mississippi River which made it literally US soil. That story inspired Puerto Rican Jewish poet Aurora Levins Morales to apply for a writing residency in New Orleans, and to travel the length of the river from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast, doing \"poet research.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSilt\u003c\/em\u003e, she follows the pathways of water across the natural and social landscapes of the Mississippi River and the Caribbean Sea, tracing the real residues of their relationship, and turning that long story into a kind of prayer, for our waters, ourplanet and our lives. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378344689887,"sku":"9780983683124","price":24.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HpoOinjWNG9780983683124.webp?v=1789254453"},{"product_id":"rimonim-ritual-poetry-of-jewish-liberation-paperback","title":"Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAurora Levins Morales's poetry radiates wisdom, warmth, and fortitude. A prophetic, life-centered guide for times of tumult and struggle.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Arielle Angel, editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRimonim\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly woven tapestry of poetry meant for use. From a time of rupture and uncertainty, beloved movement poet Aurora Levins Morales brings us a prayer book for the street, for reconstituting the future through our gestures in the present. In these poems of devotion and protest, Levins Morales speaks across and through time with an undeniably prophetic voice. Written in collaboration with various communities looking to honor, unravel, and rebuild Jewish liturgies, \u003ci\u003eRimonim\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of lyric in the most immediate sense--of poems that are meant to be read and sung. Rooted in tradition and flowering in the tumultuous present, these poems will both accompany specific Jewish practices and offer inspiration for the sacred work of human liberation, where joy meets justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, these forty-nine poems honor the forty-ninth year, when it was taught that everything in the land would begin anew, everything redistributed and freed, when the people would see that everything on this earth was \"ready to wake and bloom \/ just under the skin of what is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378498404575,"sku":"9781961814172","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/84Yn0r5XdL9781961814172.webp?v=1789257910"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/aurora-levins-morales.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}