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The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry
Rafael Campo Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Rafael Campo, the author of The Other Man Was Me and What the Body Told, is both a doctor and an important contemporary poet. In The Desire to Heal, he uses his gift for language to delineate and explicate the connections between his two vocations, writing and healing, and his roles as a gay man and an educator. Campo's topic is always the body; he understands its fragility and resistance, its power and grace. His prose is precise and poetic, and his insights are revelations. The Desire to Heal is a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir that illuminates the world with new light and urgency.Book Description
"Rafael Campo is that rare and exotic hybrid," raved the Boston Globe, "a doctor-poet, with a sensualist point of view that leads him to explore . . . the eroticism of healing--the laying on of hands." In this "unrelenting effort to humanize the medical profession" (Publishers Weekly), Campo turns the doctor-patient relationship inside out, writing not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed him. He writes of campy Aurora, "dying of love"; the elderly woman telling of her trip to the country to pick "big-as-your-hands" peaches; a hateful addict he wished would die; and Gary, whom he feared to love, "contentious and gossipy and irreverent." Campo's work, "reminiscent of Chekhov . . . [in] the way language comes up out of the body" (Los Angeles Times), restores "the transcendent power of language to redeem" as, throughout the book, "the narrative, and the narrator, only get more luscious" (Out).This book was originally published in hardcover under the title The Poetry of Healing.
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A young doctor's journey of self-discovery.......2003-06-08
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Release Date: 27 January, 2005
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The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry
Rafael Campo Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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A celebrated poet and doctor connectsthrough favorite verses and stories from his life and practicepoetry and healing.As a respected and much-loved doctor, Rafael Campo shares favorite poems with patients on his rounds. After all, incantation has played a role in healing for millennia, displaced only recently by modern scientific obsessions.
In this luminous book, Campo restores the link between poetry and healing, offering "pharmaceutical" samples of work by a diverse group of poets such as Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Miroslav Holub, Audre Lorde, Lucia Perillo, and William Carlos Williams. He leads us through the stages of illness and recuperation, from first inklings of mortality through symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and finally recovery orand here medicine recoils but poetry perseveresdeath, and even immortality.
At each stage, Campo reveals the richness of individual poems and the potent medicine they offer. Ultimately, he proposes a "biocultural" model of illness as provocative as it is humaneone that restores the art of poetry to its rightful place at the heart of a healthy society. 10 b/w illustrations.
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What the Body Told
Rafael Campo , and Rafael Campo Manufacturer: Duke University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Rafael Campo skillfully plays the rules of formal poetry against themselves in his second book of poetry, the Lambda Award-winning What the Body Told. In these intense poems, the body tells its story of loneliness and perseverance in an unwavering voice. One might expect the confessional poetry of a gay Cuban American poet to strike out in an expansive, perhaps enthusiastic mode, but Campo discovers in the sonnet plenty of room to explore questions of sexual, cultural, and professional identity. Five sonnet sequences--"Canciones de la Vida," "Canciones de la Muerte," and "Ten Patients, and Another"--form the heart of the book. These recall and try to answer each other's agonizing investigations into AIDS, desire, and the ironic distance between doctor and patient. Although the speaker is generally involved in the dramatic situation, he tends to speak as an observer, limning the assumptions below the surface and exploding them with fury. In other parts of the book, Campo synthesizes two traditions of formal poetry--the elegiac and the erotic--to create a third in such poems as "Before Safe Sex," "The 10,000th AIDS Death in San Francisco," and "Men Get the Shaft." These moving and vivid poems allow the reader to grieve for AIDS victims while simultaneously considering what it means to be healed. Despite Campo's day job--Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School--he refuses in his poems to play the healer; his evocative diagnoses, however, prescribe a schedule of gentleness, understanding, and rigor to make it through this life.Book Description
What the Body Told is the second book of poetry from Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, a gay Cuban American, and winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition. Exploring the themes begun in his first book, The Other Man Was Me, Campo extends the search for identity into new realms of fantasy and physicality. He travels inwardly to the most intimate spaces of the imagination where sexuality and gender collide and where life crosses into death. Whether facing a frenetic hospital emergency room to assess a patient critically ill with AIDS, or breathing in the quiet of his mother’s closet, Campo proposes with these poems an alternative means of healing and exposes the extent to which words themselves may be the most vital working parts of our bodies. The secret truths in What the Body Told, as the title implies, are already within each of us; in these vivid and provocative poems, Rafael Campo gives them a voice.<BR><BR>Lost in the Hospital<BR> It’s not that I don’t like the hospital.<BR>Those small bouquets of flowers, pert and brave.<BR>The smell of antiseptic cleansers.<BR>The ill, so wistful in their rooms, so true.<BR>My friend, the one who’s dying, took me out<BR>To where the patients go to smoke, IV’s<BR>And oxygen tanks attached to them—<BR>A tiny patio for skeletons. We shared<BR>A cigaratte, which was delicious but<BR>Too brief. I held his hand; it felt<BR>Like someone’s keys. How beautiful it was,<BR>The sunlight pointing down at us, as if<BR>We were important, full of life, unbound.<BR>I wandered for a moment where his ribs<BR>Had made a space for me, and there, beside<BR>The thundering waterfall of is heart,<BR>I rubbed my eyes and thought “I’m lost.â€Â<BR><BR><BR>Customer Reviews:
Powerful songs of suffering.......1997-04-23
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ringtone88.com fering, and, ultimately, the human capacity for empathy.<BR><BR><U>From reviews of Campo’s previous poetry:</U><BR>“Extraordinary meditations on illness and the healing power of words.â€Â—Lambda Literary Foundation<BR><BR>“Read Campo to enter the bloodstream of a man who, with a haunting clarity of vision, shares his memories, his anguish, his healing love.â€Â—Cortney Davis, Literature and Medicine<BR><BR>“Riveting, provocative, and refreshing—[this volume] is a gift to the clinician who is trying to re-invoke in his or her students the humility, compassion, and deep caring that brought us all into medicine in the first place.â€Â—Dr. Sandra L. Bertman, Annals of Internal Medicine<BR><BR>“[Campo] listens to the sounds the body makes, but what he hears is poetry.â€Â—Zoë Ingalls, Chronicle of Higher Education<BR><BR>“Powerful and accessible.â€Â—Jonathan Jackson, Washington Blade<BR><BR>“Bemused, indelible, and heartbreaking.â€Â—Marilyn Hacker, Out<BR><BR>“[Campo’s] private corral of disparate words twist, torque, collide with gorgeous creative imperative.â€Â—Nomi Eve, Independent Weekly<BR> Customer Reviews:
Amazon.com Rafael Campo is acclaimed as an important contemporary poet on the basis of his two books of poetry The Other Man Was Me and What the Body Told. In The Poetry of Healing Campo uses his gift for language to explicate and delineate the connections between being a doctor and a poet, a writer and a healer, a gay man and an educator. Campo's topic is always the body and he understands its fragility and resistance, its power and its grace. Campo's prose is precise and poetic; his insights are revelations. The Poetry of Healing is a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir that illuminates the world with new light and urgency.Customer Reviews:
Campo writes powerfully about AIDS and our relationship to the plague in a way one seldom reads: with practical guidelines, not moralistic platitudes and empty slogans. His essay "Imagining Unmanaging Health Care" is worth the price of the book. An excellent volume of essays, full of warmth, compassion, and most of all, humanity. Campo has truly become the "warrior-physician" he aspired to be--let's hope managed care doesn't drive him from the profession.
This book is a wonderful, wonderful read. Book Description In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share, he writes of a country endlessly at war—not only against the presumed enemy abroad but also with its own troubled conscience. Yet whether he is addressing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the battle against the AIDS pandemic, or the culture wars surrounding the issues of feminism and gay marriage, Campo’s compelling poems affirm the notion that hope arises from even the most bitter of conflicts. That hope—manifest here in the Cuban exile’s dream of returning to his homeland, in a dying IV drug user’s wish for humane medical treatment, in a downcast housewife’s desire to express herself meaningfully through art—is that somehow we can be better than ourselves. Through a kaleidoscopic lens of poetic forms, Campo soulfully reveals this greatest of human aspirations as the one sustaining us all.<BR>
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