Kindling by Aurora Levins Morales
Aurora 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 perspectiveAurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Jewish feminist poet, essayist, and fiction writer who is well-known globally. She was born in a house full with books in the middle of a rainforest in rural Puerto Rico to rebellious parents. Her family moved to Chicago when she was thirteen, but she has lived in Northern California for the majority of her adult life. She began writing and translating poetry as a child, reading it on the radio when she was sixteen, and publishing and performing in her early twenties. Her mother, Rosario Morales, had a forty-year literary relationship with her, and she has also collaborated with her brother, visual artist Ricardo Levins Morales.
Following 9/11, she became a Poet on Assignment for Pacifica Radio's Flashpoints, a public affairs program. She did extensive oral history interviews and created an exhibit on the history of Puerto Ricans in Northern California as a trained historian. Dr. Levins Morales, who suffers from a variety of infirmities and chronic illnesses, was a commissioned artist for Sins Invalid, a performance piece featuring disabled artists. Silt was written during her second writing residency at A Studio in the Woods in New Orleans in 2018.
She is the poet-in-residence for Rimonim, a new Jewish liturgy initiative centered on Jews of Color, and writes for Unruly, the blog of the Jews of Color, Sephardim, and Mizrahim Caucus. In 2019, she will return to her hometown of Maricao, Puerto Rico, where she grew up.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780983683131 |
| ISBN 10 | 0983683131 |
| Titel | Kindling |
| Autor | Aurora Morales |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Palabrera Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2013-04-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 184 |
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