Aurora Levins Morales's Books
Mar.18.2013
This new collection of poetry and prose explores the body as a site of pleasure, pain and political struggle. Disabled and chronically ill writer, historian and activist Aurora Levins Morales writes about epilepsy and stroke, the social control of dark skinned women's sexuality and the erotics of chronic fatigue, epigenetics and healing justice, community based science and...
Jul.08.1998
Remedios is a prose poetry retelling of the history of the Atlantic world, from Arabia to the Dakotas, from the Andes to Angola, the story of Puerto Rian women and our kin in all the cultures we come from, and whose borders we have touched. Beginning in prehistory and ending in 1954, Remedios is a rich collage of prose poetry vignettes, a multitude of voices, including those...
Jan.01.1998
Medicine Stories is a collection of essays on culture, history and activism. It begins with "False Memories" a discussion of the connections between individual and collective trauma, and the battle over memory. "Because I am in multiple ways the target of such dehumanization, I read history books with the skepticism of an incest survivor at a family gathering. I watch...
There is no other book like Remedios. It is history, anthropology, poetry and myth; it is a song and a prayer. Aurora Levins Morales is a Jewish Latina curandera who embraces diverse legacies with passion and eloquence. In stories so beautiful they soar off the page...she offers us remedies that heal our bodies and souls and feed the spirits of our many forgotten ancestors.”
—Ruth Behar
About Aurora
I'm a Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical writer, historian and activist. Born in Puerto Rico, I came to the US in 1967, spent my teens in Chicago, college in New Hampshire and have lived in the Bay Area since 1976. I grew up in a rainforest, in a house...
Causes Aurora Levins Morales Supports
Middle East Children's Alliance, Sins Invalid, Jewish Voice for Peace, Re-evaluation Foundation
Aurora’s Favorite Books
The Master Butcher's Singing Club, In the Time of the Butterflies, The Hundred Secret Senses, Imposing Decency, The Universe Story,A Green History of the World...