Aurora Levins Morales's Writings
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Short Story
Jun.22.2012
Yellow Medicine Review, Fall 2010
We were the only girls who wore pants, she said, sitting across the orange plastic table at a fast food joint in Brooklyn, forty years after we said goodbye on a rainy morning in late spring in the cordillera of our hearts. Now we live in cities but we both dream in unfurling fern leaves under the shade of towering pomarosas. We still have red...
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Short Story
May.23.2012
Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories
In Puerto Rico, Las Navidades is a season, not a single day. Early in December, with the hurricane season safely over, the thick autumn rains withdraw and sun pours down on the island uninterrupted. This will be a problem by March, when the reservoirs empty, and the shores of Lake Luchetti show...
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Poem
Jul.08.2011
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
[This web site doesn't allow long lines so it messes with my line breaks. Any single word lines belong with the line before.]
Cuba y Puerto Rico son Cuba and Puerto Rico
de un pájaro las dos alas. are the two wings of one bird,
Reciben flores y balas receiving...
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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...