The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole

“The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole is cause for jubilation, finally bringing together in one volume over forty years of essays and poetry by one of the major poetic thinkers of our time. Aurora Levins Morales has long written from and about the many different forms she and our survival and liberation can and must take. To have all these stories in one volume, brilliantly edited and introduced by the author herself, is to be heartened and emboldened.” - Urayoán Noel, author of Transversal: Poems

“Aurora Levins Morales’s work changed my life, and this book is a robust gathering of that work; a generous and wild harvest of five decades of writing from our beloved madrina curandera historian. Like the Yerba Bruja plant she writes about, whose leaves can sprout even when pressed between the pages of a book, Aurora’s work both is rooted in and roots us in earth; her words reach for and guide us toward greater connection, liberation, and healing. Full of story-remedies, poem-incantations, and heart-opening prose, each piece in this collection is a revolutionary call and response with plants, stones, water, history, ancestors, and life itself.” - Dori Midnight, community healer, writer, and ritual artist

“Readers who embrace metaphor, narrative, and interdisciplinarity will be delighted to find a plethora of methodological models and theoretical frameworks offered in accessible terms. . . . We can look here for strength, inspiration, medicine, a dose of reality, and a legacy of resistance to remember and draw from.”