Silt: Prose Poems de Aurora Levins Morales

Silt: Prose Poems

Aurora Levins Morales

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iul 2019

In 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."
In Silt, 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.

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In the 1890s, a U.S. congressman argued that the U.S. had the right to seize Cuba because he believed it was made of silt washed out of the mouth of the Mississippi River which made it literally U.S. soil. The author follows the pathways of the river and the Caribbean Sea, turning that long story into a kind of prayer for the waters, the planet, and people.

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Aurora Levins Morales is an internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist poet, essayist and fiction writer. She was born in rural Puerto Rico, to radical parents, and grew up in a house full of books in the middle of a rainforest. Her family moved to Chicago when she was thirteen, but she has spent most of her adult life in Northern California. She began writing and translating poetry as a child, read her work on the radio at sixteen, and began publishing and performing in her early twenties. She had a forty year literary collaboration with her mother, Rosario Morales, and has also worked with her brother, visual artist Ricardo Levins Morales. Following 9/11 she became "Poet on Assignment" for Flashpoints, a public affairs program on Pacifica Radio. A trained historian, she conducted extensive oral history interviews and curated an exhibit on the history of Puerto Ricans in Northern California. Dr. Levins Morales lives with multiple disabilities and chronic illnesses and was a commissioned artist for Sins Invalid, a performance project by disabled artists. In 2018 she received a second writing residency at A Studio in the Woods, in New Orleans, where she wrote Silt. She currently writes for Unruly, the blog of the Jews of Color, Sephardim and Mizrahim Caucus, and is poet-in-residence to Rimonim, a new Jewish liturgy project centering Jews of Color. In 2019 she will be returning to her childhood home in Maricao, Puerto Rico.