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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Landscape with Human Figure, winner of the gold medal in poetry from ForeWord Magazine; Diva, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and What the Body Told, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; all also published by Duke University Press. He has written two books of essays, The Healing Art: A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry and The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for memoir. His poetry and essays have appeared in periodicals including The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Republic, Out, The Paris Review, and The Washington Post Book World.
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Acknowledgments xi I. The Enemy Dialogue with Sun and Poet 3 Addressed to Her (Provincetown, June 2002) 4 "Elsa, Varadero, 1934" 5 Night Has Fallen 6 Personal Mythology 7 Piranhas 8 Brief Treatise on the New Millennial Poetics 10 El Viejo y la Mar 12 Ode to the Man Incidentally Caught in the Photograph of Us on My Desk 13 The Enemy 14 God, Gays, and Guns 15 Patriotic Poem 17 Post-9/11 Parable 18 Sestina Dolorosa 19 What Passes Now for Moral Discourse 21 from Libro de Preguntas 22 II. Eighteen Days in France Eighteen Days in France 27 III. Toward a Theory of Memory from Cien Sonetos de Amor 47 A Simple Cuban Meal 51 The Sailfish 52 Ganymede, to Zeus 53 After the Long Drive > For Jorge, after Twenty Years 57 Song in the Off-Season 60 Catastrophic Sestina 61 Toward a Theory of Memory 63 Patagonia 67 Defense of Marriage 68 The Story of Us 69 The Sodomite's Lament 71 Equinoctial Downpour 72 Pantoum for Our Imagined Break-Up 73 The Changing of the Seasons 74 Once, It Seemed Better 75 October, Last Sail 76 IV. Dawn, New Age Dawn, New Age 79 Allegorical 80 Progress 81 The Crocuses 82 Crybaby Haiku 83 "Silence=Death" 87 Clinical Vignettes 88 You Bring Out the Doctor in Me 90 Composite of Three Poems from the Same Anthology by Williams, Rukeyser, and Sexton 92 Tuesday Morning 93 Arriving 95 Absolution 97 On Doctoring 98 Sick Day 99
Acknowledgments xi I. The Enemy Dialogue with Sun and Poet 3 Addressed to Her (Provincetown, June 2002) 4 "Elsa, Varadero, 1934" 5 Night Has Fallen 6 Personal Mythology 7 Piranhas 8 Brief Treatise on the New Millennial Poetics 10 El Viejo y la Mar 12 Ode to the Man Incidentally Caught in the Photograph of Us on My Desk 13 The Enemy 14 God, Gays, and Guns 15 Patriotic Poem 17 Post-9/11 Parable 18 Sestina Dolorosa 19 What Passes Now for Moral Discourse 21 from Libro de Preguntas 22 II. Eighteen Days in France Eighteen Days in France 27 III. Toward a Theory of Memory from Cien Sonetos de Amor 47 A Simple Cuban Meal 51 The Sailfish 52 Ganymede, to Zeus 53 After the Long Drive > For Jorge, after Twenty Years 57 Song in the Off-Season 60 Catastrophic Sestina 61 Toward a Theory of Memory 63 Patagonia 67 Defense of Marriage 68 The Story of Us 69 The Sodomite's Lament 71 Equinoctial Downpour 72 Pantoum for Our Imagined Break-Up 73 The Changing of the Seasons 74 Once, It Seemed Better 75 October, Last Sail 76 IV. Dawn, New Age Dawn, New Age 79 Allegorical 80 Progress 81 The Crocuses 82 Crybaby Haiku 83 "Silence=Death" 87 Clinical Vignettes 88 You Bring Out the Doctor in Me 90 Composite of Three Poems from the Same Anthology by Williams, Rukeyser, and Sexton 92 Tuesday Morning 93 Arriving 95 Absolution 97 On Doctoring 98 Sick Day 99
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