Campo Rafael Campo

Landscape with Human Figure (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Landscape with Human Figure, his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the depths of our capacity for empathy. Campo writes stunning, candid poems from outside the academy, poems that arise with equal beauty from a bleak Boston tenement or a moonlit Spanish plaza, poems that remain unafraid to explore and to celebrate his identity as a doctor and Cuban American gay man. Yet no matter what their unexpected and inspired sources, Campo's poems insistently remind us of the necessity of poetry itself in our increasingly fractured society; his writing brings us together-just as did the incantations of humankind's earliest healers-into the warm circle of community and connectedness. In this heart-wrenching, haunting, and ultimately humane work, Rafael Campo has painted as if in blood and breath a gorgeously complex world, in which every one of us can be found.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822383413
• Artikelnr.: 54818239

Autorenporträt

Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. His debut collection of poetry, The Other Man Was Me, won the 1993 National Poetry Series award. His second collection, What the Body Told, won a Lambda Literary Award; his third, Diva, was a finalist in 2000 for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize (both titles also available from Duke University Press). His work has been published in DoubleTake, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Out, The Progressive, Salon, Slate, and The Washington Post Book World. He is also the author of a collection of essays now available in paperback under the title The Desire to Heal. He lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
I. Landscape with Human Figure
On New Year’s Day
Nightfall in Asturias
Quatrains for a Shrinking World
The Blackouts
Ghazal in a Time of War
Outside Fayetteville
What I Would Give
For My Brother’s Wedding
Landscape with Human Figure
II. Speak to Me
In Praise of Experience
October Afternoon, 1986
Oysters
Your Black Eyes
An Attribution
Playing “Fidel and Peron”
On Valentine’s Day
Last Hours in Florence
Speak to Me
Poem for My Familiar
After Losing Him
III. Afraid of the Dark
Afraid of the Dark
IV. Undetectable
Phone Messages on Call
Undetectable
Spiritual, ca. 1999
On Thanksgiving
The Same Old Place
Supernumerary Poem with Fruit Pastries that Allegorically Addresses Death
On the Virtues of Not Shaving
The Four Humours
V. Questions for the Weather
The Age-Old Problem of Sentimental Verse
The Couple
After the Weekly Telephone Call
For a Dear Friend Who Is Grieving
Love Poem Written Especially for You
Living with Illness
Doberman Pinscher, Dreaming
Upon Overhearing, “Anyone Can Write Like Elizabeth Bishop”
You Can Just See the Cynicism
Cuban Canticle in Five Parts
On Christmas Eve
The Beech Forest
In Case of Emergency Landing
Questions for the Weather