Spell Breaking: Remembered Ways of Being

by Carole Ione

The collection Spell Breaking offers intimate glimpses of life-transforming openings in the lives of nineteen women. Though they come from varying cultures, ages, and walks of life, they are united in their drive toward a sense of freedom and well-being. Featuring writings by Ximena Alarcón, Lisa Barnard Kelley, Sangeeta Laura Biagi, Sadee Brathwaite, Monique Buzzarté, Carol Chappell, Liz Gessner, Heloise Gold, Andrea Goodman, Jaclyn Heyen, Andrea Israel, Rachel Koenig, Amshatar "Ololodi" Monroe, Pauline Oliveros, Shirley Parker-Benjamin, Mary Elizabeth Thunder, Julia White, Anne Hemenway, and Julie Winter.

220 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Carole Ione Lewis, also known as Ione, is an author, playwright and poet whose works include Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color (New York: Harlem Moon Classics / Broadway Books, 2004); Nile Night; Remembered Texts from the Deep, (New York: Deep Listening Publications, 2008), and Listening in Dreams: This is a Dream! (New York: Ministry of Maåt Publications 2007). She is playwright and director of Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior and the dance opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him. She is currently writing a sequel to her memoir, Pride of Family. Ione is Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. and Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc.

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