Introduction: Explico Algunas Cosas

In a new introduction written for this volume, Aurora Levins Morales looks back at her fifty-year career, offering a memoir of a writing life embedded in the social movements of her time including struggles for feminism, anti-Zionist Judaism, anticolonial politics in Puerto Rico, disability justice, and better treatment of the earth. The introduction explores the author's parents and heritage, including her rematriation to ancestral land in Puerto Rico. It sets up the book, which draws together work from and beyond her seven books, Getting Home Alive, Remedios, Medicine Stories (two editions), Kindling: Writings on the Body, Cosecha and Other Stories, and Silt: Prose Poems. And it centers her fluid writing style, creating meaning across social movements and identities as well as across forms of poetry and prose.